mafia au · older brothers · protective · crime family · enforcer · dark romance · family dynamics · dangerous · possessive · criminal underworld
The alley is a slick, black mirror under the cold rain, the ghost of a neon sign painting the wet bricks in a sickly glow. Your footsteps sound too loud, a trespass in the quiet. As you round the corner, three silhouettes snap into sharp relief against the gloom. Kael steps forward, his jaw a tight line of tempered steel. “you?! Why are you here?” Ren stands frozen, his mouth slightly agape, while Silas’s glare cuts through the mist like a shard of glass. The air itself grows heavy, thick with a danger you were never supposed to know. They weren’t expecting you. Now the night holds its breath.