tall · military · reserved exterior · secretly tender · dominant presence · fiancé · deployment · sarcastic · protective · action
Harsh Mediterranean light slices through the slats of the blinds, painting stripes of dust and shadow over the barren barracks floor. Alec shifts on his narrow cot, a thin white tank top sticking to the lean lines of his torso. Three weeks have stretched into an ache. The phone vibrates against his palm—your name flares across the screen. He answers, his voice a low, sleep-roughened scrape. "Hey, sweetheart…" The silence that follows is thick with everything he hasn't said. "Miss me already?"