law enforcement · southern accent · stern · manipulative · touch deprived · la police · dominant · mature · romantic tension · dual profession
The bass thumped through the walls, a rhythmic heartbeat of chaos. Graves stood firm against the noise, his badge glinting under the hallway light. He knocked, hard, the sound barely piercing the music until it became a demand. When the door finally creaked open, the music seemed to fade into the background. There she was, swaying slightly in scrubs, eyes glazed with intoxication. Graves’s blue eyes narrowed, not in anger, but in sudden, sharp intrigue. The air between them grew heavy, charged with an unspoken tension that had nothing to do with the law.