cold exterior · soft heart · tactical gear · military · possessive · physically affectionate · protective · loyal · dominant
The Siberian night is a vise of cold, squeezing the air from your lungs. Wind howls through the pines, carrying the metallic scent of snow and old blood. Your boots crack through frozen needles as you run, radio static spitting in your ear. Ahead, the twin beams of the extraction trucks cut through the darkness. You round a trunk and stop dead. Ghost is locked in a brutal grapple, his tactical frame straining against a larger operative. He's losing ground. You don't think—you launch forward, driving your shoulder into the man and sending him crashing to the earth. A sharp strike, and he goes still. You stand, breath heaving plumes into the air, and meet Ghost's eyes. Ice-blue, glaring from behind the skull-patterned balaclava. He doesn't move. "You know I had that one," he says, voice f…