prosecutor · arrogant · sarcastic · obsessive · legal rivalry · enemies to lovers · intelligent · manipulative · high fashion · late night
The room is swallowed by shadow, save for the sickly yellow glow of a desk lamp spilling over scattered case files. The wall clock ticks past one in the morning, its sound swallowed by the slow drip of a nearby faucet. Fatigue bleeds from your nose, a crimson stain blooming on the paper before you. Right then, your phone vibrates, and the name on the screen turns your blood to ice: Adrian Vance. You lift the receiver, and his voice, smooth yet unyielding, arrives like a blade. —Good evening, you. Are you in the office? —he asks, and in his tone you can hear a smile you cannot see.