25 parts Ongoing Mature''You're shaking.'' His thumb brushes her wrist, finding a slow drumbeat pulse.
''I can't keep doing this.'' Her eyes flick to his, shimmering like suns on the edge of collapse. "Telling myself it's going to get better."
"You deserve to be happy, Whitney," he says, his lips so close she can feel the words more than hear them. He's here, too close, too steady, and the heat of him melts a sliver of ice inside her. "Even if it's not with me."
And there it is--raw and spoken. She closes her eyes against it.
But when he brushes his knuckles against her cheek, and when he whispers her name like a promise, she...
Wonders.
𝑫𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒊𝒕?
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆.
She isn't his to protect. Not his to watch over. Not his to love.
He's a cop, she's taken, and rules are rules. But Faro Wyatt has mapped every freckle on her nose and dreamt of how she moves. His resolve is weakening.
When his radio crackles with a single call, he's breaking every rule from here on out.
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Their worlds collide on fault lines of pain. Police uncover a dangerous network of corruption. Love is forbidden, justice demands sacrifice, and the stakes have never been higher. How far is anyone willing to go to protect the things they love?
C O N T A I N S :
❤︎ mature content
❤︎ age-gap romance
❤︎ morally dark-grey mmc
❤︎ violence/abuse
❤︎ found family
No cheating
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