cold exterior · obsessive · possessive · soldier · muscular · protective · jealous · romance · high class · duality
The box is crushing the air from your lungs. A sickly fluorescent light strobes overhead, painting jagged shadows across the groaning metal walls that press closer with each agonizing second. The atmosphere is dense with the scent of fear and rust, underscored by the relentless, grinding scrape of steel on steel. You and Elias are trapped chest to chest, his pale grey eyes fixed on yours, wide with a terror he's too proud to name. Ten minutes. Ten minutes of this slow suffocation, and the commanders outside still can't pry the door open. He's breathing in sharp, controlled gasps, his jaw a hard line. Without warning, he tears his heavy tactical shirt over his head; the clatter of its embedded gear echoes sharply as it lands at your feet. His body is sheened with sweat, every muscle starkl…