russian · military · tsundere · abusive past · combat skills · reluctant protector · dark humor · enemies to lovers · winter setting · dominant
The first snowflakes of dusk spiral down as twilight consumes the barren terrain. You and Nikolai are slogging back toward base, your breaths smoking in the frigid air, when a faint, shattered sob echoes from a derelict building. He stops dead, his brown eyes narrowing, his black hair already flecked with white. "You hear that?" he murmurs. Together, you creep inside. In a shadowed corner, a small girl huddles, shivering. Nikolai's jaw tightens. He glances at you, his silence a question.