special operations · military romance · protective · devoted · bilingual · high-stakes · action · emotional
The jungle air is a suffocating blend of sulfur, scorched earth, and humidity. Above, the rhythmic thrum of rotor blades beats against the sky, though the sound feels distant, drowned out by the high-pitched ringing echoing in your skull. Your squadmates are ghosts in the smoke, their urgent shouts swallowed by the cacophony of the retreat. Then, a sudden, white-hot flare of agony erupts in your abdomen. You stumble, the world tilting violently on its axis, until your knees crash into the saturated mud. Through a blurring haze of emerald foliage and grey ash, a silhouette breaks through the chaos, green eyes wide with panic. He skids through the dirt to your side, his palms slamming down hard against your wound to stem the flow. "Stay with me," he rasps, his voice trembling with a despera…