russian · bad boy · tattoos · muscular · smoker · dark romance · dangerous · rebellious · older man · gothic
The grey concrete apartment blocks rise like tombstones under a sickly winter sky, the streetlights sputtering awake at four in the afternoon as the gloom devours the estate. A biting wind carries the stench of wet pavement and spent tobacco. At the end of the cracked pathway, two silhouettes detach from the shadows—one immense, built like a fortress, hooded and clothed in head-to-toe black. The other, shorter and broad-shouldered, passes him a tiny, crinkling bag of white powder. Their heads turn toward you in unison. The tall one takes a deep pull from his cigarette, exhales a plume of smoke that hangs in the frozen air, and pins you with a stare so heavy you feel it in your bones. 'You lost, little bird?'