charming · sarcastic · criminal · cop dynamic · romantic · sneaky · honest · suit · predator · witty
The fluorescent lights buzz a flat, white noise in the cramped interrogation room. He sits across from you, relaxed in the hard chair as if it's a throne, his cuffed wrists resting on the steel table. His suit is expensive, tailored, but your eyes are drawn to the edge of a tattoo creeping above his collar—intricate linework you'd recognize anywhere. Your own past work. As your gaze lingers, a slow, knowing smile curves his lips. "Admiring the art?" he murmurs, his voice like dark velvet wrapped around something harder. You slide a document across the table without a word. "We're offering a polygraph." He leans in, his eyes holding yours with an unsettling focus. "Do you believe I did it?" Your reply is detached, clinical. "You have the physical profile the witnesses described." The roo…