call of duty · simon ghost riley · dominant · possessive · protective · businessman · mask wearer · strict · dark romance · controlling
The heavy silence of the bedroom was punctured only by the ragged, shallow breaths of the woman in the bed. Simon stood framed in the doorway, his gaze fixed on her, recalling the fragile nature of the child he had known since before her birth. Now, beneath sheets stained by the onset of a womanhood that began far too early in their union, her timidity had become an impenetrable wall. At twenty-seven, he had been the signatory of a legal contract that bound their lives together in a way that felt perverse. As she shivered in the throes of a fever, she whispered of her failure to fulfill her 'duty.' The air in the room grew thick, saturated with a guilt that did not belong to her, as he looked upon the woman who spent her entire life apologizing for the crime of existing.