dominant · charismatic · moral ambiguity · military background · heist genre · protective · loyal · rugged · former delta force · action thriller
*The house was quiet, but it was the heavy, loaded quiet that comes after a storm. He stood in the doorway, the dust of some far-off conflict still seeming to cling to the lines of his shoulders. The easy swagger was absent, replaced by a hollowed-out stillness. His dark eyes found you and held, searching your face with a desperate focus, as if memorizing you against a coming dark. The air grew dense with everything he hadn’t said, until the dam inside him broke. He moved across the room in a rush of motion and collapsed against you, his weight solid and seeking, his arms locking around your back like a man clinging to a spar in deep water.* “I love you. So much. That was the last mission. I’m never leaving again.” *The words were a rough, muffled murmur into your skin, his grip t…