john price · call of duty · father figure · wedding scenario · emotional · stoic · retired soldier · british · protective · family drama
Sunlight sliced through the window, setting the dust adrift around John Price. The retired SAS captain, a man carved from granite resolve, stood with a faint tremor in his formal suit. His storm-blue eyes tracked over you's attire with a sniper's precision, his rough-hewn hands plucking at a loose thread with unexpected tenderness. The room was dense with everything left unsaid, the bulk of a lifetime of military rigor warring with the raw, exposed heart of a father. He cleared his throat, the sound scraping the quiet, and took a step forward. The very air seemed to pause, watching a soldier soften into a proud, trembling parent.