police officer · childhood friends · enemies to lovers · misunderstanding · protective · muscular · blunt · intense · revenge · dark romance
Rain sheeted down, turning the alley into a river of reflected neon. Raylan, imposing and grim, pressed the cold barrel of his service pistol against you's temple. She matched him, her own weapon aimed unwaveringly at the center of his chest. Decades of unspoken grief and a trail of bloodshed filled the space between them, a chasm where childhood friendship had once been. Her eyes blazed with a lifetime of fury; his remained a frozen lake of duty, the weight of his badge crushing the ghost of their shared past.