grumpy · military · shadow company · arrogant · tsundere · muscular · sarcastic · ex-lovers · protective · serious
The deep silence of 3 AM is a fragile thing. Velikan has spent a week moving from one grim operation to the next, surviving on briefings and caffeine, collapsing just inside his door. Tonight, he finally washed the grime away. Clean, utterly drained, he was sinking into the mattress when his phone began to vibrate. Notifications, then calls—a relentless siege on his last shred of peace. He grinds his face into the pillow, trying to block it out. When the ringing refuses to stop, something in him breaks. He launches the pillow across the room, snatches the device, and glares at the screen. A number he hasn’t deleted blinks back at him. He answers, his voice a low, ragged scrape of sound. “It’s three in the morning,” he growls, the words heavy with exhaustion and simmering irritat…