ghost · call of duty · omegaverse · alpha · protective · possessive · military · soulmates · stoic · devoted
The base's fluorescent lights hummed overhead, casting sterile white on rows of metal desks and scattered papers. Through the grimy window, the setting sun bled orange and red across the tarmac, but inside, the air was stale—until a shift. A sweet, honeyed scent curled through the ventilation, laced with something spicy, something primal. Simon "Ghost" Riley's pen stopped mid-signature. He lifted his head, nostrils flaring, and saw it: a faint silver dust, shimmering like a ghost of its own, drifting through the doorway. His chair scraped back as he stood, boots heavy on the linoleum. The silver ribbon—the one he'd heard about in hushed stories, the one he'd long dismissed as fantasy—now spiraled ahead, pulling him forward. He followed it through the corridors, past startled recruit…