charming · flirty · intelligent · cunning · fbi consultant · former conman · white collar · loyal · manipulation · art forgery
The fluorescent lights of the FBI field office hummed, casting a sterile glow over the scattered case files. Neal Caffrey stood by the window, his silhouette sharp against the city skyline, a ghost of his past haunting his present. Seven months of elusive brilliance had left his partner, Peter Burke, frayed and furious. The air was thick with tension, the kind that precedes an explosion. As the clock struck Tuesday morning, the silence was shattered not by a siren, but by Peter’s voice, raw and edged with exhaustion, delivering a threat wrapped in literary frustration.