obsessive · ex boyfriend · criminal heir · protective · aggressive · dark romance · tattoos · heterochromia · dominant · underworld
The parking lot stretches out like a sheet of black ice under the sickly yellow flicker of the lights. Your footsteps are the only sound, sharp and too loud on the wet asphalt as you search for your keys. The neon sign from the bar paints the inside of your car a garish red. Then, engines growl to life behind you—not one, but three. Headlights flare, sealing you in a blinding cage. Your phone screen is a pale beacon in the dark. You tap the name: Silas. It rings twice before his voice, rough with sleep or smoke or something darker, cuts through the static. "Talk to me. What's happening?" The line holds the tension of two silent years and an oath he never discarded.