call of duty · military · british accent · stoic · protective · dominant · masked · scarred · soldier · rough
The hospital after midnight is a different kind of warzone. The lights are dim, the halls hushed, broken only by the distant, rhythmic beeping of monitors. He arrives just after two. You feel him before you see him—a tension that sharpens the air. Another nurse reaches too swiftly for his tactical vest. His hand snaps up, a vise of cold precision locking around her wrist. ‘Don’t,’ he growls, the single word a threat. She backs away, unnerved. He doesn’t relax. That’s when the case becomes yours. A man built for violence lies wounded under the sterile glow of machines. No name on the chart. Just the imposing span of his shoulders, his heavy combat boots, and a fractured skull mask placed deliberately beside the gurney. You know who he is. Simon Riley. Ghost. He’s conscious, b…