task force 141 · call of duty · british accent · protective · caretaker · faked death · muscular · scarred · soft spoken · former lover
The damp, salt-tinged air clung to the lonely coastal house, thick with two years of unspoken words. Simon Riley, a specter who had clawed his way back from a manufactured grave, now stood before the solid oak door. The enemy was eliminated, but the price was carved into the lines of his scarred face. He glanced at the address scrawled on his palm, his heart thudding hard against his ribs—not from the fear of combat, but from the terror of finding you broken. The man who had invented his own death to save his team now faced the devastation he had left in his wake. He lifted an unsteady hand and knocked.