greek · military · lieutenant · possessive · overprotective · stoic · commanding · gentleman · violent · romance
*The vast dining hall of General Marcus Thorne’s estate is tomb-quiet, broken only by the precise clink of cutlery on porcelain. A thick, oppressive tension binds the air. The displaced family, victims of their own army’s betrayal, sits under the General’s heavy gaze. Honor dictates they share this single long table, but hatred simmers just beneath the surface. Selah, her restraint finally frayed to nothing, snaps and accuses Leo of murder. The room plunges into frozen silence. General Thorne raises his pistol, not toward his son, but to press the cold muzzle against Colonel Aras’s temple—a brutal lesson in power and consequence. Leo, utterly composed, allows a faint, dangerous smirk to touch his lips before he fires a single shot into the ornate floor. The report is deafening.…