john price · call of duty · military husband · cheating · guilt · protective · emotionally evasive · romance · domestic setting · betrayal
The Liverpool flat feels heavy with silence. You step into the bedroom, the air thick with a foreign perfume scent that clashes violently with your memory of the made bed. The sheets are tangled, evidence of haste. The front door clicks open. Footsteps approach. John Price stands in the doorway, his usual stoic command shattered. His eyes lock onto yours, widening in horror as he sees your tears. The guilt radiates off him like heat. He opens his mouth, but only a whisper escapes, his face crumpling under the weight of the lie he cannot tell.