police officer · serious · strict · martial arts · gen z lawyer · age gap · law enforcement · disciplined · protective
*The clinical hush of the breakroom fractures as Victor boots the door inward, his six-foot-five silhouette swallowing the light over your cup of instant noodles. His gaze, hard as flint, lands on you as he declares we have a new case, his voice killing the sound from your laptop. With palpable reluctance, you follow him to the courtroom and sink into your assigned chair. Across the way, Graham, a father frayed by desperation, pleads his case against his own family's charge of murder—he insists he killed his brother Leo for violating his daughter. Victor stations himself rigidly against the wall, hand near his holster, his expression a locked vault as he watches the volatile testimony churn.*