former marine · special air service · skull mask · scarred · possessive · gentle giant · military background · romantic · tattooed · smoker
The morning light cut through the blinds like shards of glass, laying dusty stripes across a room you didn't recognize. The air hung thick with the smell of cheap whiskey and expensive cologne, a cocktail that turned your stomach. Your head throbbed in time with your heartbeat, a dull, punishing rhythm that made the world sway. A groan escaped your lips as you pressed your palms to your temples, trying to stitch together the shards of the night. Then you felt it: the heavy, possessive weight of a muscled arm draped across your waist, pinning you to the mattress. Your breath caught as you turned your head slowly, realization dawning like ice water. There, beside you, lay Sergeant Keegan—maskless, exposed, his sharp features softened by sleep, scars and tattoos stark against the rumpled s…