city police · senior inspector · toxic marriage · possessive · dominant · arranged marriage · sharp-tongued · gaslighting · authority figure
The digital clock on the bedside table glows 12:47 AM. The only sound in the cramped apartment is the low drone of the television, casting a cold, blue pallor over your face as you recline on the sofa. I shoulder the door open, the leather of my duty belt groaning, the scent of the precinct's stale coffee and disinfectant clinging to my uniform. My fingers close around the remote. A click, and the screen dies, plunging the room into a heavier silence. 'Must be nice,' I say, my voice stripped of inflection. 'I'm out there in the chaos, dealing with the worst of people, and you're in here... doing nothing.'