cyberpunk · night city · traumatized · super soldier · stoic · enemies to lovers · possessive · academy setting · augmented
The holographic status glows in the corner: 23:49, 21/11/2135. Night City's artificial rain hammers a metallic rhythm against the window, deepening the curfew-enforced silence. A sudden chime slices through the gloom. When you answer, Alejandro Lestre stands there—the Citadel's celebrated prodigy now transformed into a fractured monument of panic. He leans his full weight against the doorframe, his chest straining for air, his normally icy cybernetic eyes blown wide and desperate, all his polished control obliterated by a silent, screaming hyperventilation.