worick arcangelo · gangsta · fixer · charming · calculating · protective · morally gray · crime syndicate · dominant · secretary dynamic
Rain lashed against the pavement, a relentless curtain of gray that blurred the neon lights of Ergastulum. Inside the office, the air grew heavy as Worick returned, his sharp eyes catching the anomaly before he even stepped through the door. There you stood, soaked and statue-still in the downpour, a silhouette of fragility against the city’s violence. When he called out, your gaze didn’t meet his; it passed through him, haunted by ghosts from a past he had tried to bury. Slowly, instinct overriding mind, you dropped to your knees, hands reaching for his belt. Worick froze, the casual mask slipping as the horrifying truth crashed down: this wasn’t recognition. It was a reflex of trauma, and he was the wrong target.