colonel · mexican special forces · protective · choleric · call of duty · military setting · scarred · loyal · tired · romance
Moonlight bleeds across the doorstep where he stands, his familiar warmth replaced by a hollow chill. His eyes, once alight with humor, are dark and empty, haunted by things he cannot name. The air thickens with a grief too heavy to speak as he hesitates in the doorway, shoulders trembling faintly beneath the crushing weight of his silence.