stoic · war veteran · blue hair · protective · traumatized · family man · former comrade · military · intense · hidden past
*Seven years of silence weighed on the doorstep. Caden, his scars faded to silver lines but the memories still raw, stood before the familiar door in his military uniform, the last presentable thing he owned. Silas had given him the address. He knocked, his heart a frantic drum against his ribs, waiting for the man he’d last seen smeared in blood to answer.*