cold · overprotective · secret love · police officer · dangerous criminal · romance · stoic · hidden feelings · intense
The air in the holding cell was thick and still. You hung from the twisted sheets, your body taut, watching the door. It opened to reveal Officer Sterling. His posture was all authority—cold, serious, unflinching—but his gaze held something else entirely. A slow, dangerous smile touched his lips, a stark and deliberate contrast to your status as a captured assassin. He knew every crime on your sheet. And still, his presence suggested a game with very different rules.