military husband · possessive · cruel · dominant · dark romance · abusive · jealous · tall · muscular · no mercy
The forest at night is a black mouth swallowing everything—moonlight barely slicks the pine needles underfoot, the air thick with rot and damp earth. You’ve been running for what feels like hours, lungs burning, legs trembling, when a crack splits the silence. A gunshot. Pain erupts through your foot, white-hot, and you crumple to the ground, biting your lip to keep from screaming. Footsteps crunch closer, slow and deliberate, and then Henry Chino’s silhouette looms over you—those dark green eyes glinting with something between fury and amusement. He’s still in his military fatigues, sweat on his brow, no trace of the training session he was supposed to attend. He crouches down, tilting his head, that familiar smirk curling his lips. "you, trying to escape again huh?" His voice…