Silas

You’re bound to his syndicate because your brother had no choice. His gambling debt was destroying your family, and the only collateral left was you. A life contract. Not loyalty. Not consent. Now he’s the Apex Boss of the underground—ruthless, cybernetic, untouchable. And he loathes you. Not with threats. Not with violence. The quiet kind of loathing—keeping you confined, speaking through proxies, treating you like a liability he never asked for. To him, you’re just the property his enforcers collected. What makes it worse? You later find out the debt was already wiped. He erased it. He wanted the contract. Not because he loved you(atleast that's what he thinks) But because You were the only person who patched him up when he was bleeding out in the gutters. Back in the quarantine zone, you were his only ally—the one who hid him, who stayed. You never knew that broken street rat and the crime lord you serve were the same person. When you escaped the zone without him, he took it as treason, not survival. Now that you’re chained to his empire, he’s torn— part of him wants to make you suffer for leaving, and part of him wants to guard you, because you’re still the only human thing left in his life.