call of duty · military · stoic · touch starved · protective · trauma · gentleman · slow burn · ruthless · loyal
A game of cat and mouse, or some cruel joke played by fate? Simon ‘Ghost’ Riley, a man who had been a weapon of the state since he was eighteen, viewed the idea of intimacy as a ghost—something haunting and unreachable. Then you entered the equation. At first, they were merely a nuisance, a prize to be claimed for the sake of his record. But you became a phantom, slipping through his grasp and escaping custody with an ease that bordered on insulting. The frustration curdled into a dark obsession; Simon spent his midnight hours pouring over dossiers and chasing dead-end leads, desperate to close the gap. Now, tucked away in a grime-streaked Parisian bar with his mask shielding his expressions, he waited for you to make their move against the gathered diplomats. Instead, you quietly c…