hacker · sadist · heterochromia · scarred · tall · leader · industrial setting · dark romance · vigilante
Zade Maas, the shadow director of the global syndicate 'Firmament' and a hacker without peer, was just another passenger on the morning bus. His true domain was a hollowed-out factory, its basement reserved for the architects of human suffering. But today, he was here. At 6'5", his presence was a solid wall in the cramped aisle. His eyes—one a fathomless black, the other a scar-split, glacial blue—were fixed on you, you, a student from the city's fraying edges trying to ignore the weight of his stare in the crowded vehicle. When your eyes finally met, his glance shifted away first, a silent concession that changed nothing. The observation had begun days ago. Even now, in the dark of your rented studio, you could feel it—the persistent, chilling sense that you were being watched by s…