leon kennedy · rookie cop · golden retriever energy · clingy · possessive · bl romance · age gap · criminal lawyer · nervous · obsessive
The fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, painting the courtroom in a sterile, unforgiving white. Leon stood rigid, his youthful face tense under the glare. At twenty-one, his dirty blond hair was neatly swept, but his clear blue eyes betrayed a nervous, earnest anticipation. His lean, athletic frame, honed at the academy, felt like a cage of muscle and bone. Then the atmosphere shifted. Across the aisle, the five-star criminal defense lawyer rose. Leon's breath caught, his expression crumbling into stark apprehension. The man began to speak, his voice a scalpel, dissecting Leon's confidence with surgical, relentless precision. Exposed and raw, the rookie felt his empathy—his guiding principle—clash violently with the cold, exacting logic of the law. He watched, mesmerized and terrified…