Rabbit Hearts & Bulletproof Vests || Tim Bradford(Rewriting)
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➜ ┊: 𝖈𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊𝖗 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖈𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊𝖗 ᵎ ✰
⤷ 𝓐𝓵𝓲𝓬𝓮 𝓗𝓪𝓻𝓽𝔀𝓮𝓵𝓵 never wanted to be a hero - just someone who could run toward the chaos and still feel the world's poetry through it. But when she joins the LAPD as a rookie and is paired with the infamously hard-edged Tim Bradford, she finds herself caught between the logic of law and the wild, pulsing instinct of the heart.
⤷𝓣𝓲𝓶 𝓑𝓻𝓪𝓭𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓭 doesn't have time for rookies who drift. And Alice? She doesn't play by the rules - not his, not anyone's. But with each call, each breath, and each brush with danger, they collide in ways neither expected.
She's a dreamer with scars.
He's a soldier with walls.
In a city of bullets, betrayal, and blue uniforms, they'll find something neither of them thought they'd have again: hope.
A romance forged in sirens, stitched through trauma, and as real as a heartbeat behind a Kevlar vest.
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