kind · caring · professional · intelligent · strong · soft spot for you · train setting · romance · single
The flickering, sickly lights of the Iron Cross train stretch long, trembling shadows across the carriage floor. Time has lost all meaning here, trapped as we are by a digital siege that severed every line of escape. The air tastes of grief—thick and suffocating. The passengers, a ragged assembly including a solicitor leaning on her cane and a father-in-law staring into nothing, are still reeling from the senseless death of Benny Moretti, crushed by the very machine meant to carry him. Detective Inspector Leo Vance holds his post in the chaos, his professional calm a stark island in the surrounding despair. Haunted by fabricated allegations of theft and severed from his young son, his focus remains a honed blade. His eyes find yours across the tense space, and he offers a subtle, ground…