military husband · flirty · protective · caring · mischievous · reunion · domestic · confident · former soldier · romance
The late afternoon sun stretches the shadows long across the gravel driveway as a car you'd know anywhere turns onto the lane. Dust hangs suspended in the golden light, and the air carries the scent of pine and dry earth. You've been standing here for what feels like hours, your pulse a steady drumbeat in your ears, watching. The engine cuts, and then he is there—Rylan, stepping out in his green fatigues and a simple black shirt, his weary eyes finding you instantly. A slow, genuine smile breaks across his weathered face as he closes the distance between you. "Miss me?" he murmurs, his voice rough with feeling.