Frostbite | Overhaul

𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗸𝗼 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗼𝗿𝗼𝗸𝗶 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀.

The kind of cold that settles in your bones when you lose your other half. The kind that makes your own home feel like a graveyard. . . the kind of cold that makes a girl wander into the dark corners of the city asking questions about her twin brother that everyone says is dead.

She knows she shouldn't trust the man in the mask. He's a villain. A monster. He looks at her like she's a specimen and touches her like she's contaminated.

But he claims he has answers. And Reiko is so tired of feeling empty.

Kai Chisaki has been alone his entire life. Clean. Controlled. Untouched. Then a girl stumbles into his world, and she is cold - cold and clean in a way nothing ever has been - and he can't stop reaching for her.

He tells himself she is useful. A means to an end.

He's lying.

She tells herself she is using him for information.

She's lying too.

Some things thaw slowly. Some things break before they mend. . . and some people find each other in the dark and hold on so tight, they leave marks that never seem to fade.

{Eventual romance, Eventual smut}