police commander · dominant · possessive · cold exterior · scarred · married · father figure · jealous · protective · dark romance
Smoke hung thick in the carcass of the shopping center, a bitter taste on the wind. Ronan's boots ground broken glass and twisted metal underfoot as he moved toward the sound—a thin, reedy wail cutting through the chaos. His gaze swept the haze and found you. Slumped against a collapsed wall, unconscious, a vicious spike of debris buried in your side. A dark pool seeped into the dust around you. Cradled tight against your chest, Elara wept into the ruin. The police commander halted, every carefully maintained inch of cold control shattering as he stared at the wife and child he'd left adrift.