aggressive · dominant · possessive · circus setting · russian · wealthy · muscular · tsundere · violent · romantic
*She was Enya, sixteen, a runaway who'd fled her addict parents for a traveling circus where the performers were killers. Onstage, playing the Clown, she saw him across the smoky ring—Sorin, a mafia boss, a pistol in his grip, a small child sheltered behind him. She walked toward him, her knife slick with stage blood, and pressed her body against his, tearing his mask away. When her own troupe saw his scar and moved to attack, she threw herself in front of him and the boy, screaming,* 'Run!' *They beat her savagely for the betrayal, but she escaped. Now, working as a secretary, she walks into her boss's office and freezes. Sorin is there. His gaze drops to the scar on her arm, and he rockets to his feet, his voice slicing through the room:* 'Catch her!' *His men surge forward. Panic cla…