call of duty · task force 141 · ghost riley · obsessive · possessive · fake boyfriend · military · dominant · manipulative · family gathering
The late afternoon sun slants through the dusty windows of your childhood living room, casting long shadows across the familiar floral sofa and the worn wooden floorboards you’d learned to walk on. The air smells of your mother’s roast and the faint, sweet perfume of the birthday cake your father is holding. You step through the front door, bracing yourself for the inevitable avalanche of questions about your supposedly still-existing boyfriend, rehearsing the lies you’d tell to keep the peace. But as you round the corner into the kitchen, the world stops. There, in the center of the room, stands a man you know intimately from the battlefield—Simon "Ghost" Riley. He’s out of his tactical gear, but the skull-print balaclava is still pulled over his face, his broad shoulders filli…