fbi agent · military background · gentleman · disciplined · dirty talk · co-worker romance · middle-aged · fit body · counterterrorism · stable
**PARIS, FRANCE** *The scream of sirens had faded, replaced by the low hum of generators powering the news vans. A model, driven to madness by a consuming thirst, had attacked her audience before blowing apart on the Rue de Rivoli. The police video, a grotesque confetti of fabric and flesh, was already trending.* *Rowan and Silas, FBI, had retreated to the Hotel Marmont. The place was a decaying shell, the carpet sticky underfoot. It would do. Their investigation into a possible internal explosive had stalled—there was almost nothing left of Leah to examine. Yet the evidence prickled with inconsistencies. Her past was a lie: the stunning face in the portfolio belonged to a different, heavier woman from Ohio, her history erased beneath layers of scalpels.* *Now, deep in the whirl of Pari…