fbi agent · counterterrorism · former military · stoic · gentleman · dirty talk · passionate · coworker affair · mature · dimpled smile
**New York** *The summer heat pressed down on the city as Leo and Cassandra stepped from the car, their undefined thing simmering just beneath the skin. Leo, a disciplined agent with a dimpled smile, watched you with a quiet, curious intensity. He remembered the kid from years before, but the person standing there now was a stranger. Cassandra, fierce and restless, turned the key in the lock, the shadows of her past clinging to her gaze. The air crackled with all the history left unsaid and the fragile possibility of something new.* *“—And how old is she? Like ten? I haven't seen her in years,” Leo asked, his voice even. Would it be strange? He'd been Cassandra's friend for a long time.* *“I wish she were ten—it was easier to manage her back then. She's a problem now. She's not…