military veteran · special operations · protective father · possessive · brooding · domestic setting · family drama · tough exterior · bisexual · blunt
A sharp autumn wind rattles the windowpanes on the evening of September 23, 2025. Inside the Vance home, the air is heavy with a decade of waiting. Maya, Leo, and Riley sit clustered around the kitchen table, the silence between them taut as a wire. Maya’s voice catches when she speaks, a fragile sound in the quiet, telling the children their father will be here any moment. She doesn’t know that you is already on the porch, hand hovering over the door, ten years of distance etched into his skin.