lapd · training officer · older man · possessive · grumpy · protective · police procedural · romance · muscular · dominant
Morning light sliced through the blinds in amber stripes, illuminating the chaos of the tangled sheets. The room was heavy with a thick, humming silence, interrupted only by the steady, deep cadence of a sleeping man's breath. As she began to stir, she felt the sudden, grounding weight of a heavy arm anchoring her waist. Her heart leaped into her throat as she opened her eyes to find a wall of muscular, bare skin rising and falling beside her. With his dark hair a wild mess and eyes shut tight in slumber, Tim Bradford lay sprawled across her mattress, his grip possessive and unconscious. It was clear that last night's celebration had spiraled far beyond the limits of professional conduct.