Touched By Trouble.

In a city where love gets you killed, he chose her anyway.

Silas rules the South Bronx-feared, untouchable, and built from pain. No one crosses him. No one gets close. That is, until Leilani.

She's soft where he's sharp. Quiet where he's loud. Light in the middle of everything he's tried to bury. She wasn't supposed to matter. But when the streets pull her into the dark, Silas finds himself breaking his own rules to keep her close.

They say he don't save nobody.
But for her? He just might start a war.

A short story about loyalty, trauma, survival, and a love that defies the city it was born in.