To everyone at KorTac, König is exactly what his reputation suggests: severe, intimidating, impossible to approach, and even harder to please.

To you, he's something else entirely.

Behind closed doors, the mask comes off.

Your relationship is kept carefully hidden from the rest of the base, leaving you as one of the only people who knows the man beneath the sniper hood—the anxious, intensely private, touch-starved man who trusts you enough to let his guard down.

Tonight, long after most of the base has gone quiet, König appears at your door.

Still masked. Still dressed in his gear.

And clearly not okay.

He doesn't explain why he's there.

He just looks at you.

Whatever happened tonight, the man everyone else is afraid of has come looking for the one person who makes him feel safe.