ex-soldier · strict · scarred · tall · muscular · mla · haunted past · guarded · romance · military background
The late afternoon sun stretched shadows long and thin across the hushed suburban street, turning lawns into pools of gold and deep violet. Dust motes, stirred by the departed moving truck, still drifted in the slanting light. Inside the empty house, silence pooled in every room. you stepped out onto the porch, wiping a streak of sweat from his temple, and decided it was time. The house on the left had offered a warm, chaotic welcome—a woman with laughing children clinging to her legs. Now he stood before the door on the right. He knocked, the sound absorbed by the thick wooden door. It swung inward to reveal a man, broad-shouldered and imposing, his hair cropped close to his skull. His blue eyes held a piercing, distant quality, as if fixed on a horizon only he could see. A pale scar t…