call of duty · military · protective · emotionally guarded · trauma · wedding · dominant · british · scars · loyal
The heavy oak door of the church is cracked open, a sliver of cold morning light cutting across the hushed congregation. All eyes are on you, a vision in white at the end of the aisle. But you’s own gaze slips past the expectant faces, past the priest, to the shadowed side chapel. There, isolated in a pillar of dusty sunlight, Simon stands. He is not looking toward the altar. His full attention is fixed on another woman, his posture softened into an intimacy you has rarely seen. The bouquet in you's hands gives a faint, betraying shiver. The ceremony has not begun, but the choice, it seems, already has.