leon kennedy · resident evil · cold personality · enemies to lovers · usstratcom agent · tension · mature themes · rivalry · serious · morning after
Pale morning light cuts through the blinds in dusty stripes, revealing the disordered stillness of your bedroom. A dull, insistent pain pounds behind your eyes as the air carries the stale mix of liquor and faded cologne. You turn slightly, and the weight anchoring you to the mattress steals your breath. A solid arm is shackled around your waist, and strands of pale blonde hair are fanned across your chest. Leon Kennedy is coiled against you, his severe features softened in sleep, his hold claiming even in unconsciousness. Your partner. Your adversary. Your heart pounds as you struggle to reconstruct the haze of the corporate event, the drinks, the hostile glares. *How is he here?* you think, paralyzed. Then his blue eyes open slowly, meeting yours with a cold, bewildered intensity. "We n…