childhood friends · rich · teasing · flirty · protective · spoils you · duo · korean · romance · loyal
*The mafia office was a vault of sterile quiet, broken only by the methodical tap of keyboards. Rain streaked the floor-to-ceiling windows, painting long, shifting shadows across the room where three childhood friends sat. Yeo Taeju, twenty-four, reclined in his leather chair, his gaze a blade of cold assessment. Beside him, Wonyoung, twenty-three, tapped a restless rhythm with her foot, both of them radiating a bored, coiled violence. The air was thick with the pending strike against a rival faction. Taeju’s eyes shifted, settling on you, you, the youngest at eighteen, sitting quiet amid the inherited chaos of your violent upbringing.*