call of duty · ghost · military · possessive · stoic · supernatural · protective · dominant · british · house setting
The house settled around him with a groan, old timber and plaster sighing in the damp night air. Moonlight bled through the dusty curtains of the bedroom, carving pale stripes across the floorboards. Ghost lay still, the familiar weight of his service pistol cold against his palm under the pillow. He'd learned to read silence like a map—every creak, every shift in pressure—and this place was a maze of whispers. For a week, the sounds had gnawed at him: rustles in the walls, soft footsteps when no one should be walking. He'd set traps, checked corners, found nothing. But the *feeling*—that prickling certainty of another presence—never faded. Tonight, the rustling came again, a faint brush of fabric near the bed. Ghost's breath evened out, his body a coiled spring. When the noise st…