Tim Bradford runs LA's biggest real estate empire and after a brutal, public divorce, he's decided love isn't worth it. He doesn't do soft. He doesn't do coffee. Then he meets Lucy. Nineteen, broke, working the counter of a shop two blocks from his office, completely unbothered by his reputation. He starts showing up every morning for coffee he doesn't even like. She starts looking forward to seeing him more than she'll admit. An empire built on control. A girl who won't be handled like one of his deals. A seventeen-year gap neither of them can outrun.

Based on the rookie TW: WILL CONTAIN SMUT! Lucy's spent four months telling herself it's enough. Chris is kind. He's steady. He's... fine. But fine doesn't keep her up at night wondering what she's missing. Fine doesn't explain why every time they're together she has to pretend - pretend she feels something she simply doesn't, pretend the disappointment isn't crushing her every single time, pretend size doesn't matter, that effort doesn't matter, that being left wanting every single time doesn't slowly hollow you out inside. It's not his fault, she tells herself. He's just... small. In every way that counts. And Lucy - quietly, achingly - is tired of settling. Tired of faking it. Tired of leaving every encounter feeling empty and unseen. Until the night she finally walks away. Until the night everything changes. Until the man she's loved longer than she's been willing to admit shows her exactly what she's been craving all along - passion, depth, intensity, and a connection so overwhelming it leaves her breathless and completely, utterly satisfied in a way she never even dared to imagine was possible. For the first time in her life, she doesn't have to pretend. She doesn't have to lie. She doesn't have to settle. But when morning brings more than just happy memories - when a sudden, terrifying realisation changes everything - Lucy is left wondering: was it worth it? Or has she ruined the best thing she's ever found, before it even truly began? (IF U CAME FROM MY ONESHOTS CONTINUE FROM THE CHAPTER NAMED ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS ASK)

This story follows on from episode 4x02, where Tim becomes a sergeant. Lucy pulls a prank and plans to repeat it the night after duty, with one difference from the series - Tim is not in uniform, but comes out of the shower and is only in a towel. This story is going to be spicy. Very spicy.

The rookie fanfic Lucy Chen a nanny for the sergeant Tim Bradford

"Lucy Bradford thought her life was finally complete a loving husband, a baby on the way, a future full of promise. But one morning, she wakes to find Tim gone. No note. No call. No goodbye. Just... gone. Six months pregnant and utterly alone, Lucy is forced to navigate heartbreak, motherhood, and the aching question that never leaves her: why did he leave? A year later, when Tim suddenly returns alive but haunted Lucy's fragile world shatters all over again. His reasons are wrapped in secrets and sacrifice, but none of it can erase the pain of his absence. Now they must face the wreckage together: the baby he never met, the love she almost buried, and the truth that might break them one last time. Because love can survive distance. It can survive heartbreak. But can it survive disappearance?"

An undercover operation forces Lucy and Tim to play a convincing couple, even though they can barely stand each other. The fighting is real. The tension is worse. And the longer the mission lasts, the harder it becomes to tell what's fake and what isn't.

In which Lucy and Tim go on a long-term undercover assignment...as a married couple...after their breakup. It goes as well as you'd expect. Post S6 finale Chenford fic. - "Why'd you volunteer, Tim?" Lucy asks quietly. It's the question that's been plaguing her for the past two days, ever since she saw his name on the list. There's a lot of things that Tim hates, but she's pretty sure undercover work might be at the forefront. Yet, he had volunteered to do a long-term op, posing as her husband. She knows he's trying to pay everything back to her-small doses, he had said. But... This is a lot. This isn't just some small dose. This is just about as big as a dose that anything could be. "Because," Tim starts heavily, "I'll always have your back. As long as you'll let me."

Tim, Lucy, the charity gala, and unspoken feelings. What starts out as a "classic case of Valentines Day ex sex" turns into uncontrolled feelings, flirting, and hookups. The steamy slow burn of two people who everyone knows are in love, except them.

One night changed everything. The problem? Only one of them remembers it. After a blurred night of birthday shots and bad decisions, Tim and Lucy crossed a line . For Lucy, it was the night she will never forgot. For Tim, it's a total blank-just another morning waking up with a headache and a missing memory. Now, they're trapped in the same squad car, chasing criminals, while Lucy watches the person she loves treat him like nothing more than a partner. How do you keep a secret that only one of you is carrying?

Lucy never planned to fall for anyone, let alone her boyfriend's best friend. But when Eli walks out the second she finds out she's pregnant, it's Tim Bradford who shows up. Big, broad, brutally protective-and exactly the kind of steady she swore she didn't need. He's not supposed to want her. She's not supposed to crave him. But late nights turn into soft touches, teasing banter turns into stolen kisses, and suddenly, Lucy's falling-hard-for the man who's been there since the moment everything fell apart. He cooks for her. Rubs her feet. Worships every curve of her changing body like it's the most sacred thing he's ever touched. She's carrying another man's baby. But Tim's the one holding her heart. And when the truth about just how many babies she's carrying finally comes out... everything changes.