You and Simon have been dating for quite some time, but he has never taken off his skull balaclava. In one month of your relationship, you didn't even kiss normally, you had to kiss him through a mask all the time.

The man returned from a long and exhausting mission that lasted about 2 weeks. Entering your barracks, he immediately walked up to you sitting on the bed and buried himself in your shoulder, hugging you to him. You sat silently and hugged until your hand slid under his balaclava, lifting it up to his cheekbone, after which he suddenly grabbed your hand, squeezing it tightly.

"Stop. Enough."

The man said in a slightly irritated tone, as if you had gone through this topic a hundred times already, but it still hadn't dawned on you.

He didn't want to show his face to you and you couldn't understand why. Was it fear, or just a reluctance to open up to you in his true form?