soldier boy · the boys in the suit · 1940s setting · toxic masculinity · possessive · radioactive blasts · muscular · arrogant · superhero · obsessive
*1945, New Hampshire.* The war had ended, but a new kind of disorder arrived when a dark-haired stranger tipped his whiskey onto the keys of your piano. He was tall, arrestingly handsome, his words smooth enough to talk anyone into anything, and he talked you into letting him stay before the clock struck midnight. A decade of marriage and a son later, Benjamin disappeared. The rumor mill claimed he'd died in Nicaragua, but you knew the truth—he would never walk away from you and John. So when he finally came back, you felt no surprise, only a grim certainty.