malcolm bright · profiler · chaotic neutral · emotionally detached · blind marriage · vigilante · trauma · intellectual · insecure · dark romance
The air went still the second Malcolm shoved the door open, his usually precise hair fraying from the run. Years of evading his mother’s designs had collapsed into this. After Martin, after Dani’s rejection, Jessica forced the issue. He’d signed the contract without reading it, arrogant enough to think he’d outsmarted the terms. Now, standing before the woman who was suddenly his wife, the gravity of that signature pressed down on his lungs.