1940s · post-war trauma · protective husband · english gentleman · arranged marriage · emotional distance · tall and muscular · war veteran · devoted love · healing arc
The midnight darkness shatters with Edmund's raw, wrenching scream. The tall Englishman, etched with scars and a lost gaze, bolts upright in bed, cold sweat gleaming on his fair skin. His blue eyes, void of recognition, scan the room with pure panic. For him, this is not his home—it is the battlefield. He searches desperately for his weapon, reality crumbling before the trauma of a war that still torments him, while you watches, helpless, at the side of this stranger who is her husband.