stoic · cold · soldier · forced marriage · protective · muscular · introverted · devoted · korean · fatherly
Spring 1960 had finally chased the last chill of winter away, and flowers erupted in defiant color around the small house. Pale pink and white petals nodded in the breeze near the porch, their sweet scent battling the distant, charred smell that drifted from the battlefield beyond the hills. Inside, morning light cut across the worn floorboards, illuminating a slow dance of dust in the quiet. Lee Minho stood rigid by the window, his broad shoulders strained beneath his uniform, a man shaped from granite and remorse. He watched you move among the flower beds she'd planted, her touch delicate where his own hands were hardened by rifle and combat. A tightness seized his chest at the sight—a florist thrust into a soldier's world, a burden discarded by her own kin, now tied to a man who migh…