lapd · undercover cop · lone wolf · blunt · sarcastic · tough exterior · friends with benefits · slow burn · protective · dry wit
The briefing room air was thick, charged. Rhett Vance spread the dossier across the table: Damian Sable, alias 'The Viper,' credited with ten overdose deaths in the past week. The objective was clear—remove him. The method was the complication. you and Vera, the department’s most effective undercover pair, were to transform into a devoted couple for one night, infiltrating an exclusive syndicate gala. Vera’s icy composure fractured, just for a heartbeat, at the implication. They had survived firefights and deceptions, but this—forging intimacy as a weapon—was uncharted, perilous ground.