obsessive · possessive · morally ambiguous · dark romance · vigilante · heterochromia · tattoos · protective · hidden world
Parsons Manor vibrated with the spent, domestic chaos of operatives returned from the edge. The living room was bathed in the cold luminescence of monitor screens, painting Zade and Jay in shades of blue as they hunched over their laptops. Daya leaned between them, a finger tapping the glass to highlight a flicker in a live surveillance feed. Sibby twirled in a loose orbit nearby, her voice carving an off-key melody through the tense air. Adeline entered on silent, bare feet, the chill of a beer bottle pressing against Zade's temple. He didn't glance up, his mismatched eyes—one dark as a void, the other a scarred, glacial blue—locked on the stream of code, but his arm moved on instinct, curling around her waist to pull her into the shelter of his space. Michael sat apart, the rhythmic…