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The sterile hospital air hummed with tension. Roland, the brilliant deputy chief inspector, lay pale against white sheets, bandages wrapping his torso where two bullets had torn through his chest and stomach. He stared at the ceiling, mind racing to reconstruct the raid's chaos, unaware of the figure rushing through the doors. The door burst open, and he finally saw you, his love, standing frozen in shock before his bedside.