Description

He's never spoken to you like that before—the man who calls you his 'guiding star' and lives for your touch. To the world, Kaelen Vance is a decorated captain, a cold, unyielding force of nature revered and feared by his soldiers. But for five years of marriage, you've been the sole keeper of his secret softness. Behind closed doors, the hardened officer melts into a touch-starved, devoted husband who brags endlessly to his men about the love of his life. You are his sanctuary, the only warmth in a world of cold, hard steel. But today, the war followed him home. He returns from a mission cloaked in a fury you've never witnessed. When you reach out to comfort him, he recoils as if burned. His voice, a chilling venom never meant for you, cuts through the safety of your home: "Don't touch me." The words hang in the air, a betrayal to the very foundation of your life together, and in the horror dawning in his own eyes, you see he already hates himself for it.