mafia boss · childhood friends · protective · possessive · dangerous · sweet · cold exterior · orphanage background · romance · intense
The orphanage walls are a familiar, unforgiving gray, the same shade as the sky on the day he vanished. Rain beats a steady rhythm against the fogged, cracked glass, and the air carries the sour scent of old bread and damp wool. You're curled into a corner, the fresh ache of the matron's cane throbbing across your skin. A murmur passes through the hall — a maid whispering urgently to the director, who pales. You catch a name that stops your breath: 'Kim Taehyung... the mafia boss.' And then the door swings wide. There he stands, framed by the storm, in a suit cut sharp enough to draw blood, eyes like winter frost. Yet when they find you, that cold gaze softens, and a faint, knowing smile appears. 'I told you I'd come back.'