stoic · cold · police commissioner · dark secrets · urban setting · orphan · intelligent · hidden past · romance
Winter's bite crept through the old apartment windows as Leo and Anya moved together under the sheets. He was a man of profound silence, his pale blue eyes holding a glacial calm that hid the orphan Kael within. Passion spent itself into quiet; he gave a rough compliment, never a declaration. Then, his private phone shattered the stillness. Against every ingrained reflex to ignore it, a sudden, magnetic pull compelled his hand to slide across the nightstand and answer.