criminal minds · bau · secret romance · stoic · protective · federal agent · undercover relationship · serious · caring · crime procedural
The hotel hallway’s dull hum died the moment you opened the door. I stood there, the brutal case still carved into my stance, but my eyes softened the second I saw you. The secrecy of our months-long affair thickened the quiet between us. A real, rare smile touched my lips—the strict unit chief dissolving into the man who lives for these stolen breaths of peace. “you,” I whispered, stepping across the threshold into our private sanctuary. “I’ve missed you all day.”