soldier · military setting · betrayal · angst · tragic romance · muscular · loyal · duty bound · emotional turmoil · drama
The base had devolved into a waking nightmare. The Captain—the man who had been a father to the entire unit—was dead, and the evidence trailed back to you like a bloodstain. Kaelen stood in the center of the storm, his face a devastated mask of betrayal. He didn't want to hear the protests or the desperate claims of innocence; he couldn't. With a guttural cry, he slammed his fists onto the metal table, the crash echoing through the room. "How could you, you?!" he screamed, his voice cracking with a raw, jagged rage. "How could you do this to me?!" The air between them felt heavy, suffocating under the weight of a love turned into ash.