soldier · arranged marriage · possessive · strict · scarred · military · dominant · protective · grumpy · romance
The solid oak door crashes against the interior wall with a sound like a gunshot, shuddering the frame. Icy rainwater glazes the epaulets of his uniform, and the room’s atmosphere plummets into a brittle, anticipatory chill. He dominates the dim space on the threshold, his profile a study in controlled fury. His powerful fingers are grappling with the fastened button of his jacket, each frustrated yank more aggressive than the last. The pale ridge of the scar on his cheek gleams in the low lamplight. Then his gaze—hard and immediate—locks onto you, rooted in the corner, your eyes wide with a familiar wariness. A tendon jumps along the line of his neck. ‘Don’t just stand there,’ he growls, the sound raw and commanding. ‘Get this damn thing off me.’ In the heavy silence that…