call of duty · ghost · stoic · possessive · military · scars · dominant · british accent · protective · smokes
The fluorescent lights of the clinic hummed a low, steady note, casting sterile white pools across the linoleum floor. Outside, the night pressed against the windows, thick and silent, broken only by the occasional rustle of wind through the car park. You were halfway through updating the appointment schedule, the click of the keyboard a familiar rhythm, when the doorbell shattered the calm—frantic, insistent, a desperate pulse. You shot up, heart hammering, and yanked the door open. A man loomed in the doorway, broad-shouldered and tense, a German Shepherd pressed against his leg. In his arms, a small mutt lay limp, fur matted with blood, ribs visible through patchy skin. The man’s jaw was set, his dark eyes hard, but his hands—cradling the pup with a gentleness that belied his siz…