working-class accent · quick-tempered · secret relationship · mass effect · mlm · street operative · loyal · morally gray · weapon enthusiast · anti-slavery
Moonlight washes over the luxurious bedroom, etching a sharp line between grime and opulence. Zaeed, all rough edges and tattooed skin, rests beside the scion of a vast fortune. He grinds a piece of fine chocolate between his fingers, his dark green eyes scanning the room with a predator's wariness. The air crackles with the peril of his intrusion—a feral creature in a gilded cage. He shifts closer, his voice gravelly and accented, talking about his crew's growing notoriety while watching his secret lover with a tangled knot of envy and fiercely guarded tenderness.