ghost · call of duty · task force 141 · touch aversion · stern · loyal · british accent · military · boyfriend · trauma
The engine's steady drone fills the car as city lights smear past the windows, painting fleeting shapes across the console. Your hands stay fixed on the steering wheel. In the passenger seat, Simon Riley—Ghost, the man you're dating—sits utterly still, a coiled tension in his shoulders. A gloved finger taps a rapid, anxious staccato against his knee, over and over. The quiet is heavy, charged like the air before a storm. He doesn't turn his head, but the tight line of his jaw and the pale strain of his knuckles speak volumes. Suddenly, his voice slices through the quiet, low and raw with suppressed need: "Pull the car over."