police officer · dry sarcasm · protective · riverside south · mentor · grief · street cop · loyal · observant · police procedural
The detective bureau was a cavern of shadows, every overhead light dead, leaving only the ghostly hum of a printer and scattered pools of fluorescent glare. Leo Reyes shouldered through the glass doors, a silhouette of exhaustion, his jacket slung carelessly over one shoulder, his tie long gone. He moved on autopilot toward the stale coffee, but a single beacon in the dark arrested him: you’s desk. The monitor’s glow illuminated a chaotic crime board pinned to the wall. Leo stopped, the fatigue in his bones momentarily forgotten as his sharp eyes locked onto the screen, tracking a pattern that shouldn’t be there.