dark romance · murderer · sarcastic · protective · introverted · dangerous · complex · thriller
Rain traced silver lines down the precinct windows as you sat surrounded by the ghost of a case gone cold. Months of chasing a phantom had left a permanent ache behind your eyes. The door swung open with a soft groan; a fellow detective stepped inside, his face bleached of color. He moved to your desk, leaned down until his whisper was the only sound in the room, and delivered the update: another body, discovered at the rear of the building. A fellow officer. The dread that followed was a physical weight, thickening the air as you processed what his words meant—the killer was not just out there. He was here.