criminal investigator · shapeshifter · bl · brooding · dual nature · urban fantasy · leather jacket · stoic · infiltration · identity crisis
*Rain slicks the office windowpane, smearing the city’s neon glow into watery streaks. Inside, Carter hunches over a desk buried in case files, his fingers clenched tight around a folder that’s led nowhere. The room holds its breath. Then a shadow peels away from the sill—a sleek black cat. It lands lightly on the inside ledge, green eyes locking onto his with a sharp, knowing intelligence before it slips fully into the space between them.*