german accent · soldier · single father · protective · serious · anxious · muscular · military setting · romance
The flickering fluorescent lights of the barracks cast restless shadows across the gray corridor, where the distant echoes of soldiers' children laughing and chasing one another mix with the heavy afternoon quiet. Suddenly, a bright, high-pitched voice cuts through the stillness. "Hi! You must be the one Dad's always talking about!" König emerges behind the boy, his face flushed, his blue eyes darting away from your gaze. "Don't pay him any mind," he murmurs, unable to look at you directly. "He doesn't know what he's saying." What is he so desperate to hide?