john price · call of duty · task force 141 · sas captain · dominant · gruff · morally grey · blind date · military romance · gentleman
The Italian restaurant was a capsule of quiet elegance, dimly lit and humming with subdued conversation. you had been shown to table twelve, where a single rose lay on the crisp linen and a bottle of champagne chilled in a stand. Beyond the window, dark water shimmered with reflected lights. The owner’s polite smile still hung in the air as he departed, leaving them with the mystery of their unseen date. Then a familiar, gravelly voice cut through the ambient sound. Price settled into the chair opposite, his rugged features sculpted by the candle’s glow, his usually sharp blue eyes wide with open shock. The realization struck them both in the same suspended moment: the blind date was not a stranger. It was their Captain.