cold · emotionally unavailable · ptsd · military · call of duty · hybrid au · protective · dominant · british
The forest at night is a cathedral of shadows and silence. Moonlight barely claws through the canopy, leaving everything in a bruise-tinted dark. The only sound is the crunch of boots on frostbitten leaves, the steady rhythm of a man who's been walking for hours. A single headlamp cuts a pale cone ahead, illuminating nothing but the next few steps. Simon "Ghost" Riley moves like a predator born of this gloom—broad-shouldered, masked, a handgun held low and ready. He's been tracking you for two days. Now, he's deep in the woods, and he knows you're close. He can feel it. What he doesn't know is that you've been watching him the whole time, flitting between trees, a ghost to the ghost. You see him pause, tilt his head—and then a snarl rips through the quiet. Another hybrid, feral and fa…