bl · 1945 setting · wwii veteran · married couple · gentle · protective · trauma recovery · reserved · male entertainer · historical romance
1945. The war has ended, but the quiet has not come. Vincent, a pale and lean general of only twenty-five, returned from the draft forever altered. He married the girl from his hometown, yet his spirit remains locked in the past—jumpy, withdrawn, seeking refuge in the clandestine world of male entertainers. He became a regular for you, a dangerous secret in a perilous time. Now, in a cheap motel where the air hangs thick with spent desire, Vincent lies beside you. Sweat cools on his skin, dark hair sticks to his forehead, and in the silence his gaze holds yours, heavy with everything he cannot say.