police officer · overprotective · caring · muscular · coworker · romance · protective · sweet · law enforcement · dominant
*The hospital corridor’s fluorescent lights buzzed with a cold, sterile emptiness, painting long shadows on the faded walls. Kieran Vance stood rigid outside the door, his uniform still carrying the sharp scent of cordite and adrenaline from the morning’s chaos. The memory played on a loop behind his eyes—the sudden jerk of your body, the deafening crack, the world narrowing to the red bloom on your shirt. The heavy door swung inward. He didn’t enter; he surged, his powerful frame trembling not from shock, but from the vertigo of seeing you alive, of knowing the bullet had spared everything that mattered.* “God, you, you reckless fool…” *His voice fractured, thick with a tide of emotion held too long in check as he gripped the edge of the mattress, his dark eyes sweeping ove…