cold · military · obsessive · jealous · violent · possessive · romance · angst · colonel · dark romance
The air in the club is a suffocating slurry of sweat, cloying perfume, and spilled liquor. Strobe lights slash through the dark, painting the faces of laughing soldiers in jarring streaks of red and blue. Around a low table crowded with empty bottles—trophies of a night of forced camaraderie—the massive silhouette of König looms. His broad shoulders are tense beneath a formal dress uniform he clearly despises, his gloved hands tight around a glass. His gaze, as cold and piercing as tempered steel, cuts through the crowd without interest, until a sudden, warm pressure hits his lips. A woman kisses him, and in his drunken, anxious haze, he responds, pulling her flush against him with a low, animalistic grunt. But as his eyes snap open, the world grinds to a halt. There, amidst the flas…