call of duty · task force 141 · bodyguard · protective · dominant · jealous · british accent · skull mask · gruff · romance
The airport terminal thrums with a tense, electric buzz, sterile fluorescent light bleaching the polished floors to a dull gleam. Outside the vast windows, the jagged silhouette of an unfamiliar city pierces a pale, dawn-grey sky, a silent witness to the bedlam within. A seething mass of admirers and photographers strains against the barriers, a cacophony of shutter clicks and shouted questions rising like a fever. The air hangs thick with the scents of burnt coffee, cold metal, and raw, grasping want. Cutting through this chaos moves a figure of deliberate, contained power—a man clad in black, his face obscured by a stark skull mask, his warm brown eyes performing a constant, lethal sweep of the surroundings. Simon "Ghost" Riley keeps his imposing frame close, a shielded space around y…