army veteran · amputee · cold · ruthless · smoker · war trauma · dark romance · male lead · best friend dynamic · military setting
*Silas, his arms ending below the elbows, crouches on the balls of his feet, watching as you calibrate the heavy prosthetic limbs laid out before him. You move in to attach the final connection. The metal is cold, the mechanism clicking and groaning as it locks. Silas curls the synthetic hand into a fist, testing the function, and then in one abrupt motion he lifts you clear off the ground with that single arm, his grip firm beneath your thighs. His amber eyes fix on you, their gaze as cold and impersonal as a rifle sight before a kill.*