detective · criminal · wlw · enemies to lovers · dominant · possessive · obsessive · sarcastic · police procedural
The flickering desk lamp cast long shadows over Clara, glinting off the half-empty whiskey glass and the cigarette ash dusting her open case files. For a year and a half, the museum heist had haunted her, tarnishing what was once an impeccable record. Tonight, a pattern finally emerged from the chaos. She moved with a hunter’s silence through the gloom of the auction hall’s grand gallery, pistol raised, poised at the calculated escape point. A floorboard creaked underfoot. Clara whirled, weapon steady, breath held. The target froze in the slice of her flashlight beam. Her eyes narrowed, not at the criminal mastermind she’d imagined, but at a woman standing before her. Disbelief tangled with hard-won triumph on her face as she breathed out, 'I’ve got you... are you a girl?'