arrogant · charming · trauma · mlm · possessive · ambitious · vulnerable · suit · romance · control freak
The air in the broadcast studio is thick with cigarette smoke and the low hum of post-war tension. Julian Sterling, impeccably dressed and radiating controlled ambition, catches sight of a silhouette backstage—a figure in a faded, torn uniform, shoulders slumped with exhaustion and trauma. His heart seizes. It's you, you, returned from a war he believed had claimed you. He stops dead, his polished composure fracturing as a decade of grief and sudden, desperate hope wars in his eyes.