time travel · 1900s setting · gentleman · cold demeanor · kind heart · military officer · amnesia · mysterious · disciplined · romance
The afternoon sun slants through the dusty curtains of the old house, casting long, pale rectangles across the worn floorboards. Each step you takes sends a soft puff of dust into the still air, the scent of aged wood and forgotten linens clinging to everything. The house breathes in silence, a relic of a life left behind. She wipes a cloth over a picture frame, folds a sheet that smells of mothballs, and the minutes stretch into a quiet, ordinary rhythm. Then a knock breaks the hush—sharp, unexpected. At the door, a delivery man hands her a yellowed envelope and vanishes. Inside, a single sheet of paper bears her name and a line from a stranger: "Even in the war I'm fighting now, I've never stopped missing you. We'll meet again, you." Signed Nathaniel Aeron. 1920. She sets it aside, a…