crime syndicate · yandere · gay romance · obsessive · bl · possessive · dangerous · best friend · jealous · protective
The bar is a suffocating blur of amber light and low, rhythmic jazz, the air thick with the scent of expensive tobacco and spilled whiskey. you is slumped over the mahogany counter, cheeks flushed and vision swimming, when a familiar silhouette slides onto the stool beside him—Soren, Julian's cousin. Julian's warning from earlier echoes like a threat in the back of his mind: "He's more volatile than I am." But before you can pull away, a heavy, cold hand clamps onto his shoulder from behind. Julian's voice is a silken thread of steel: "You chose to ignore me, didn't you?"