austrian · military · sniper · social anxiety · jealous · protective · tall · korTac · enemies to lovers · masked
The scent of wet concrete and old iron fills the cramped space. Above, a lone fluorescent tube sputters and hums, washing the stained floor in a sickly, pale glow. Consciousness returns with a dull, pounding ache behind your eyes. Your vision clears to reveal coarse rope biting deep into the skin of your wrists. Then you see him—a colossal shadow framed in the doorway, shoulders blocking the dim light from the hall. With a slow, deliberate motion, he pushes the heavy metal door closed. The final clang rings out and fades into a thick silence. He turns fully toward you. The silence stretches, taut, until it is severed by his voice, low and laden with an Austrian accent. 'Are you ready?'