Leverage - Taegyu

Synopsis

Kang Taehyun comes back to Boston to claim the only thing he has left of his family: a failing bakery passed down through generations. What he doesn't inherit willingly is his father's debt-to the Choi family, one of the city's most powerful criminal dynasties.

Choi Beomgyu is sent to collect.

Thirteen years ago, Beomgyu was the dangerous boy Taehyun feared and secretly wanted. Now he's a man with absolute power, and Taehyun is cornered with no money, no protection, and no clean escape. Beomgyu doesn't want the bakery. He wants leverage. And when money fails, he offers Taehyun another way to pay: three months of complete submission in exchange for freedom.

What begins as coercion quickly turns into something far more volatile.

As Taehyun fights to keep his dignity, his business, and his sense of self, Beomgyu discovers that ownership doesn't feel the way he expected. Control turns into obsession. Punishment turns into need. And the line between vengeance and desire blurs until neither man can tell where the debt ends and the wanting begins.

In a world ruled by power and fear, both men must decide what they're willing to lose-and what they refuse to give up-when possession starts to feel dangerously close to love.

original by Silvia Violet.