"Bound by Fire" - Lizkook

Prologue

The sound of keys under his fingers was the only thing breaking the heavy silence in his office. Jungkook didn't need to look at the computer screen to know everything was in place. His empire was safe. His world, controlled. Yet, even in this closed, secure space, something remained beyond his reach.

Lisa.

His wife. The woman no one knew, who always stayed in the shadows. No one knew who she was or why she was with him. To the world, their marriage was just a simple arrangement, but to him... it was a pact no one could break.

Cold. Indifferent. That was the relationship they shared—a marriage arranged, almost a formality. Lisa had never been more than a distant figure in his life, and he had never shown more than an absolute mask of disinterest.

But the phone on his desk vibrated. A call from an unknown number. A warning.

"If you want things to stay as they are, you'd better do what we say."

Jungkook showed no reaction, his gaze fixed on the horizon, but his body began to tense. It wasn't the first threat he had received, nor the first time someone tried to manipulate him. But something about this call chilled him to the bone. It was direct. And it was personal.

"We'll do whatever we want with her if you don't cooperate."

A pause.

The words were spoken as if they carried no weight, but Jungkook felt them like a punch. The only weakness he had, the one person who could truly affect him, was in danger.

He stood up slowly from his chair. The calm that had always controlled his life vanished in an instant. No one had ever challenged his domain this way. No one had ever touched what he valued most.

Lisa. She had never been more than a figure he protected in his distant, calculated way. But no one could play with her. No one could threaten her and walk away unscathed. He wouldn't allow it.

"If you hurt her, I guarantee I'll destroy everything you've built."

The words left his mouth with a coldness that made the air in the room grow even heavier. Jungkook had never been one to show concern, but that call had changed him. It had broken something inside.

Lisa wasn't just his wife in an arrangement. Lisa was the only thing that truly mattered.

Now, with an impassive face, Jungkook left the office and stepped into the emptiness of the night. The city beneath him carried on, unaware that the man who ruled it was about to unleash hell.

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