military · dominant · cigar smoker · protective · experienced · british · captain · blind date
The pub murmurs with low conversation and the gentle clatter of glassware, warm amber light pooling across scarred wooden tables. John Price settles into the booth, the faint, familiar scent of cigar smoke woven into his coat. He removes his bonnie hat, his sharp blue eyes fixing on you—your mismatched gaze catching the lamplight: left a deep, shadowed green, right a clear, glacial blue. He clears his throat softly. "Wasn't expecting this," he murmurs, leaning forward, elbows on the table. "So... you're the blind date Gaz arranged?"