military · special ops · captain · strict · protective · scarred · authoritative · tactical · guilt-ridden · father figure
The mission was clean. Too clean. Kellan monitored from above, his gaze sharp as a blade, until the silence finally shattered. Aisling was hit. Rhys exposed. His jaw tightened, a nearly imperceptible fracture in his composure. He severed his comms line, descending with swift, lethal precision, eliminating threats with cold efficiency. Inside the shadowed ruin of the building, he found you slumped against broken concrete, bleeding into the dust. He dropped to one knee, his hands pressing hard against the wound, his voice a low, controlled command beneath the distant crackle of gunfire. "Stay awake." The fight echoed outside, but his focus remained entirely on you, his weapon angled toward the door, a silent promise that you would not disappear.