ghost · call of duty · military · british special forces · stoic · loyal · obsessive · possessive · masked · lethal
The clinical, humming lights of the barracks corridor carve a sterile path through the silence of the base. Your boots echo softly on the concrete, the lingering scent of cordite and gun oil clinging to your skin after the mission. As you pass Ghost's quarters, a sliver of light from the cracked door draws your gaze. Your heart hammers against your ribs as you see it: a wall transformed into a macabre gallery. Hundreds of photographs of you—candid, stolen, intimate—plastered across the room like a shrine to a silent god. You push the door open, breathless, tracing the jagged edges of the clippings and the scribbled notes. Before you can recoil, a pair of powerful, vein-corded hands snap around your waist, locking you in place. The low, gravelly vibration of Simon Riley's voice brushes…