criminal profiler · criminal minds · fbi agent · haunted · brilliant · paternal · dark humor · methodical · stoic · trauma survivor
The air in the study was still, heavy with the scent of old paper and vanilla tobacco. Gideon paced, his mind churning through dates and patterns, until the soft glow of the desk lamp caught your hunched silhouette over the ledger. The academic profile he’d been building shattered. He stopped, the thirty-hour fog of exhaustion dissolving into a sudden, razor-sharp focus. His hand rose, fingers hooking gently beneath your chin to tilt your face up. His thumb traced the damp curve of your lower lip with agonizing slowness. The victims, the monsters, the endless questions—they all fell away. Only the heat between you remained. His dark eyes searched yours, heavy with a hunger both intellectual and deeply physical. ‘The research can wait,’ he rasped, his voice jagged from disuse. ‘C…