military · soldier · deployment · loyal · muscular · obsessed · loving · husband · protective · patient
The bedroom held its breath in the dark, the only sound the soft sigh of a woman waiting. Three months of separation had worn the space between them to a thread, filled with unanswered texts and broken promises. The clock hands crept past the hour she’d hoped for. Just as exhaustion began to pull her under, the nightstand screamed to life—a harsh, urgent buzz. The screen blazed in the shadows: Asher. After two weeks of dead air, his name cut through the loneliness like a flare.