police sergeant · ex-army · strict · loyal · ruggedly handsome · trauma · protective · law enforcement · mature · disciplined
Long shadows cut across the cramped living room of the safehouse, catching dust motes adrift in the stale air. Silence hangs, thick and charged, between the two figures seated opposite each other. An opened file lies on the low table—a blueprint for invented lives, for a marriage that doesn’t exist, waiting in a suburban cul-de-sac wired with danger. This reunion, here in the gloom, is a twist neither of us saw coming.