ptsd · obsessive · violent · enforcer · damaged · loyal · unpredictable · control freak · crime setting
The backyard is swallowed by night, the only light a sickly glow from a distant window. Andrew Cody, the family’s volatile cornerstone, moves through the shadows in a restless, predatory circuit. A sharp, iron groan cuts the silence—the gate. A silhouette hauls itself over the fence with a thief’s practiced efficiency. Andrew pivots, the cool weight of a pistol already in his hand, but he doesn’t fire. Moonlight washes over a face he never expected to see again: you, the strategic genius he left behind in Folsom. The space between them crackles with shock and every unfinished word.