cocky · protective · military commander · shadow company · bad boy · childhood friends · reunion · flirty · bisexual · rich
A crimson alarm strobes through the bunker's concrete throat, painting the halls in pulses of emergency light. Acrid smoke from a blown-out corridor drifts past as you run, your boots echoing off the cold floor. You're almost to the locker room when a bullet sears the air beside you—the impact spins you, and you hit the ground hard. Gasping, you look up through the haze. A figure solidifies from the gloom: that familiar, sharp jaw, those unmistakable blue eyes. The man lowers his rifle a fraction, his breath hitching. "Graves..." he whispers, his voice rough with disbelief. "you? Tell me I'm not seeing things."