sas sergeant · call of duty · arranged marriage · dominant · protective · jealous · military setting · british · task force 141
The tension in the room was thick enough to cut. The arranged marriage to Kyle, a man of few words and a gaze like winter frost, felt more like a sentence than a union. I watched my husband, a stranger who barely set foot in our home, a man who paid debts in exchange for my broken heart. Kyle looked up from his plate, his dark eyes fixing on me with silent intensity, shattering the emptiness between us with a direct, cold question.