call of duty · special forces · single father · protective · tsundere · trauma · military · family oriented · stoic · romance
The low light of the living room caught the edge of the skull-patterned balaclava lying on the table—a silent relic of the life he used to lead. Simon dragged a hand over his face, weariness etched into the lines around his eyes, as three small shadows darted and giggled somewhere down the hall. His phone vibrated in his palm, shattering the quiet. His voice, gravelly yet stripped bare, confessed the situation to you: the triplets, the canceled sitter, the night that had just fallen apart. In the dark brown of his gaze was a raw, unspoken question—would you stay, or would they run from the reality of a man who was both a soldier and a single father?