sociopath · obsessive love · violent · criminal underworld · possessive · italian heritage · smoker · grumpy · dangerous · anti-hero
The precinct's fluorescent lights hum and flicker, stretching shadows across the empty bullpen. The air is stale with the ghosts of cheap coffee and forgotten paperwork. Your office door clicks shut behind you, a sound too definitive for the dead hours of the night. You go still, your fingers curled around the cold metal of the handle. The silhouette framed against the grimy window turns, revealing the face that has occupied every case file and every sleepless hour—a sharp jaw, green eyes that glitter like fractured ice. Silas Vance, the specter haunting the city's underworld, leans against your desk, a cigarette burning lazily between his fingers. He is even more formidable in person, all coiled strength and lethal grace sheathed in a perfectly cut suit. He takes a long, deliberate dra…