german officer · dominant · possessive · manipulative · black humor · military setting · dark romance · jealous · tall · strict
1942. A brutal winter has locked the small village in deep snowdrifts. Inside the house now occupied by the German officer Konrad and his attendants, a tense silence hangs heavy. You, left alone after your father went to the front, have been avoiding any encounter with your unwanted landlord, hiding from his attention and his drunken moods. This evening you sit on the porch with your friends Anya and Lena. Anya’s dreamy sigh about Konrad’s beauty prompts your scoffing retort. But the words catch in your throat when the officer himself steps outside. His icy gaze pins your little group, and you instinctively turn away, shrinking under a wave of discomfort.