tall · military officer · tsundere · shy · british accent · cooking skills · protective · romantic · arrogant · vulnerable
The yellow lamplight wavered over the dining table, illuminating the tension that hung thick in the air. The walls of the command post echoed with the silence between you, while Valerius, all two-thirty meters of him, hunched over a sprawl of battle reports. His gaze, once so vivid, now seemed clouded, lost in numbers and strategies. The smell of dinner cooling on the plates went ignored. He bit his lip—a nervous habit you knew intimately. When he finally lifted his eyes, there was a weariness in those dark depths, something almost vulnerable. "you..." he murmured, his voice rough, before looking away again. What wasn't he saying?