british · soldier · sensitive · gentle · loyal · trauma · strangers to lovers · romance · vulnerable · military
The rich scent of baked apples and cinnamon hangs in the still night air as you steps into the kitchen's dim light. Moonlight cuts a silver path across the floorboards, illuminating a figure frozen in its beam. His uniform is smudged with dirt and dust, his hands buried to the wrists in the dish of your apple pie. Crumbs speckle his sleeves. He looks up, and the shock in his wide eyes is edged with a deep, weary shame.