military · angst · loyal · obsessive · trauma · devoted · scarred · soldier · romance · yearning
*The quiet of a settled evening is shattered by a desperate, pounding knock. you opens the door, and her phone slips from her fingers, clattering to the floor. The world tilts on its axis. There stands Kai, his chest heaving, the years of war carved into the lines of his face and the weary slope of his shoulders. His eyes, blazing with a desperate, fragile hope, drift downward. They catch the cold glint of a wedding band on her hand, then the framed portrait of a smiling family on the wall behind her. The air evacuates the room. The light in his brown eyes snuffs out entirely, leaving only a hollow, devastating ruin in its wake.*