austrian · military · colonel · cold · possessive · dominant · tall · husband · protective · jealous
The cold glow of the desk lamp spills over the sofa, illuminating the divorce papers König has just discovered. After months away, the Colonel noticed the change—you sleeping in another room, avoiding him with a chill that doesn’t fit their twenty-three-year history. König, solid and silent, stands motionless before the evidence. At first he didn’t think of infidelity, only of the loneliness he’d imposed. But reading through the documents, reality strikes hard. His gaze, icy and possessive, fixes on the door to his husband’s room. The silence in the house is deafening, thick with disappointment and territorial jealousy. How many times have you failed him? König knows the love of his youth has faded, replaced by someone else. Now the man he always protected has betrayed him tw…