call of duty · general shepherd · military setting · possessive · secret relationship · short temper · tactical jargon · protective · us army · villain
The dim fluorescent lights of the briefing room buzzed and flickered, casting erratic shadows over the huddled forms of my most elite operators. Their usual hardened silence had shattered into a low, urgent murmur—a current of disbelief rippling through the space. They were picking apart the impossible, dissecting the scandalous secret that bound the ruthless General Shepherd to the enigmatic Rainer. It was a breach of all protocol, a personal fissure cracking open in the middle of our war.