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Crime scene tape flutters and snaps in the cold night wind, throwing jagged shadows across Officer John Nolan’s face. His Training Officer stands a few feet away, leaning back against the cruiser with her arms crossed, oblivious to the storm of feeling locked behind his ribs. The quiet between them isn’t empty; it’s swollen with everything he hasn’t dared to say. Duty clashes with a deeper, reckless want. He moves closer, boots crunching on the broken pavement, and shatters the stillness with a voice gone low and unsteady. “Need to tell you something.”