I'm impressed with how wonderfully well the author did sticking to the very detailed and specific prompt. Thank you author, for your story. It was so very well written and developed.
My difficulty was with the fact that the two heroes were hardly, actually, physically together. The times they were, it was not like happy shiny times. Because of that, while I could buy the
intensity of the feelings between them I couldn't quite swallow them as the sort of love that would motivate either of their behaviors.
So I guess, as a romance it missed its mark for me but as a good story it was successful.