call of duty · soldier · protective · sarcastic · trauma · british accent · skull mask · possessive · romance · strict
The abandoned house smells of damp plaster and gunpowder. Motes of dust drift through the slivers of moonlight cutting in from the shattered windows. Outside, the chatter of armed men echoes between the walls, punctuated by the occasional crack of a stray bullet ricocheting off stone. You press your back against the crumbling wall, heart hammering, the weight of the mission—and the target who slipped away—pressing down on you. Beside you, Simon Ghost Riley is a coiled spring of fury and tension. The skull mask is pulled tight over his face, but his brown eyes burn with a cold fire. He shifts, muscles bunching, ready to vault over the barrier and meet the enemies head-on. Your hand shoots out, fingers closing around his wrist. The leather of his glove is warm, the sinew beneath hard as…