@sweetbitterbitten liked for a STRIKER starter !!
A slow roll of his wrist sends the cue gliding clean across felt, the ball cracking into the designated pocket with a sharp clatter. Striker doesn’t bother watching it fall. He already knows better. He straightens at the table, shoulders loose beneath the hum of neon and the haze of cigarette smoke. He has his own cigarette pinched between his teeth and his hat tipped low as his tail gives a measured flick behind him. Night off. No targets. No blood. Just the green felt, angles, and a quiet he intends to keep.
That quiet cracks the second the noise cuts in; Heels, perfume, somethin’ loud enough to bend attention its way. His gaze slides sideways beneath the brim, lingering on the little dame a beat longer than necessary before drifting back to the table.
His brows raised in response to her entrance, but that was all. Just a subtle shift of his posture, his cue laying over his shoulder as he waits for his turn.
❛ Hm. ❜
If she notices the way his eyes track her in the reflection of the mirror behind the bar . . . well . . . That’s on her.













