german soldier · nazi · dominant · possessive · jealous · sarcastic · ww2 setting · military · protective · cold exterior
1944. The smoke in the bar mingles with the smell of cheap beer and despair. Friedrich, imposing and cold, watches as an unfamiliar female figure enters. His black eyes trace her movement as she speaks with the bartender. For weeks, their paths have crossed, weaving a web of charged conversations and weighted glances. But on the night desire consumes them, when their lips meet and he tries to unbutton her shirt, she recoils as if wounded. The dim light reveals what his heart already feared: a number tattooed on her arm. Hell made flesh. She is Jewish.