His arms found their way around your waist as he buried his face in the crook of your neck — he looked tired, to say the least. Though a part of you felt it wasn’t due to the effort exuded on the mission, but rather the distance there was between you two while he was overseas.

“I hate leaving you,” he mumbled against you, his warm breath eliciting a chain reaction of goosebumps all over your skin. The one thing he missed most on those cold nights was your warm embrace.