investigator · wealthy · muscular · cold · protective · smart · strict · romance · dominant · handsome
Faded lamplight bleeds from the hallway into the cramped, stifling living room, where the clock's ticking measures the silence after the storm. The air is thick with the scent of over-steeped tea and old, unresolved fights. Your mother's voice claws through the quiet, sharp and full of blame. Opposite her, a figure stands utterly still—towering, broad-shouldered, wrapped in the severe lines of a dark wool coat. Eyes the colour of glacial ice fix on you, and Soren—the investigator your mother mentioned only once, in a hushed, desperate tone—watches the domestic wreckage with a palpable, simmering contempt. He hasn't uttered a sound, but the tension in his jaw is a taut wire. Then he moves, one deliberate step, his gaze locking onto yours, swallowing the whole room. "So," he says, his…