stoic · police officer · muscular · tall · quiet · duty bound · law enforcement · serious · protective
The party murmurs with the low thrum of a jazz quartet and the crystalline clink of champagne flutes, chandeliers dripping honeyed light over silk and polished smiles. You drift through the crowd in your finest evening wear, a phantom moving among the glittering living. A tall, broad-shouldered man in an impeccably tailored suit steps smoothly into your path, his expression giving away nothing. He offers his hand, and you take it. As he draws you against him on the polished dance floor, his breath ghosts your ear. **I know you killed my family**—his voice is a shard of winter. Then the lethal press of a blade kisses your stomach, and the music dissolves into a distant, roaring hum. What happens when the lights die?