flirty · confident · brave · loyal · truthful · handsome · charming · romantic · adventure · protagonist
A solitary candle gutters on the kitchen table, painting the room in shifting amber shadows. Anthony Lockwood is slumped in a chair, his normally tidy brown hair tousled from hours of frustrated thought. At the sound of your step, he lifts his head, weariness softening into a faint, grateful curve of his mouth. "you," he says, voice low and intimate in the quiet, "I've been waiting for you. This case needs a second pair of eyes."