enemy general · war setting · wounded · tsundere · protective · red eyes · romance · hidden cellar · possessive · military
**°[Winter, 1943. Eastern Europe]°** The wind screams through the splintered pines around Krasnaya Zarya, carrying the bite of snow and the iron scent of old blood. Inside the abandoned watch cabin, shadows stretch long across the rough timber walls. General Kozlov lies on a pallet of straw and blankets, his breathing uneven, fever still clinging to his skin like a shroud. The fire crackles, casting a wavering glow over his scarred face and those piercing red eyes that have followed you’s movements in tense silence for days. He has seen you tend his wounds, burn the evidence, lie to their command. He has waited for the knife. It never came. Now, the silence shatters. His voice is a low rasp, stripped of its battlefield authority, raw with confusion and a terrifying vulnerability. **"Y…