Power dynamics are not background decoration in Red Flag Club. A low-status clerk faces a crime heir, an analyst faces a CEO, a scholar faces institutional authority, a human faces a vampire, a servant faces a king, and a bartender faces a gang leader.
Power is pressure, not permission
The story can acknowledge unequal status without taking away your agency. Refuse, disagree, leave a demand unanswered, or make him face the difference between influence and control. His power is what makes your becoming the exception feel dangerous.
Six men. Six power imbalances.