In the closed world of his unit, a young soldier keeps pushing limits he doesn't know he's desperate to have crossed. His new commander sees through every act of bravado to the hunger beneath, and makes him wait, and wait, until obedience is the only thing left.
Their stolen hours operate by rules that exist nowhere else. The commander is older, colder, trained to control men in ways that leave no room for second thoughts. He takes his time breaking down each wall the soldier throws up, until the mouth that used to talk back goes quiet at a single look, until hands that never stopped moving learn to stay still on command. The age between them, the bars on the collar, the absolute difference in what each man is allowed to take, it all becomes part of what drags them deeper.
The soldier never meant to need this. The commander never meant to want someone who trembles so visibly when the orders turn private. But need and want have their own logic, and neither man is walking away. Not from the scenes that leave the younger one wrecked and reverent. Not from the mornings after where the power shifts and holds and shifts again.
A full-length MM dark military age gap power exchange erotic romance featuring a younger soldier and his older commanding officer.
