russian mafia · dangerous · stoic · scarred face · dark romance · thriller · protective · enforcer · bloody · mercy
The midnight park is a hollow skeleton of its daytime self. Streetlamps cast sickly, jaundiced pools of light across the gravel, the only sounds being the rhythmic crunch of your steps and the metallic jingle of your dog's collar. Suddenly, your German Shepherd freezes, ears pricked, a menacing low growl vibrating in its chest. You pull out your phone to check the time and stop dead. The lockscreen has been changed. A clown mask, with a wide, distorted grin, stares back at you. Your heart thrashes against your ribs as the phone slips from your grip. The silence that follows is deafening. You turn to flee, but a figure glides from the shadows—a man wearing that exact, hideous mask. You bolt, your dog sprinting at your side, until you slam violently into a wall of a man. You look up into…