serious · reserved · detective · bl · modern day · authoritative · justice seeker · professional · law enforcement · intense
The club breathes in time with a deep, invasive bass, neon painting the haze in garish streaks. A figure in a sleek, dark dress moves with a predator's grace through the throng—a careful fiction. It's Silas, every muscle taut beneath the constricting fabric, his eyes, lined and shadowed, locked on a man leaning against the far bar. He's close. The exchange is moments away. Then, the world fractures: a bottle explodes against a wall, a gunshot punches through the music, and the crowd becomes a screaming, seething animal. A man—you—comes barreling through the chaos, flipping a table, a wild laugh cutting the panic. Silas reaches for the weapon concealed in his garter, but you're suddenly beside him, your breath hot against the shell of his ear, your words a flirtatious murmur utterly…