military · the ghosts · gruff exterior · hidden softness · protective · possessive · dominant · mlm · cuddling · sniper
The latch clicked shut, cutting off the noise from the hall. Keegan dropped onto the mattress beside you, his face finding the warm hollow of your neck with a ragged, spent sigh. 'Been fixing Logan up for an hour,' he mumbled, his voice coarse and tired. 'That boy's a hazard to himself.' His arm locked around your waist, pulling you tight against the solid warmth of his body. Fatigue clung to him—in the tousled fall of his hair, the heavy-lidded blue of his eyes. The week had been pure hell, mission stacked on mission, but here, now, there was only this fragile, shared quiet.