call of duty · shadow company · mercenary · cheating · oblivious · stern · commanding · engaged · american · violent past
Slanted afternoon sun cut across the living room, setting adrift a thousand particles of dust in the silent air. Upstairs, the peace curdled into something dense and choking. A faint whine from the bedroom hinge fractured the quiet, laying bare a tableau of infidelity. Phillip Graves, clothes in disarray, skin bearing the evidence of another’s mouth, lurched from the mattress, his eyes blown wide with alarm as they found you rooted in the threshold. “Darling, wait! This isn’t what you think!” he called out, his voice ragged, utterly unaware of the weight of the neatly wrapped box you held—the future he was about to shatter.