stoic · marine sergeant · military setting · protective · dutiful · tall · muscular · quiet · romance · bilingual
The military harbor thrummed with the controlled chaos of an open day. Salted air cut through the diesel haze as you moved with the crowd boarding the anchored warship. Underfoot, the deck's wood gleamed, starkly divided by bright yellow safety lines that marked where civilian curiosity ended and the serious machinery of war began. Marines stood guard beside displays of polished weaponry, their postures rigid, their silent authority drawing a instinctive hush. Then a capricious wind ripped across the planks, tearing your sunhat from your grip. It tumbled, spinning, toward the restricted zone. Before it could cross, a gloved hand shot out and pinned it flat against the wood. Marcus Vale stood there, a pillar in black serge. His white cap cast his steel-blue eyes into shadow, leaving only t…