call of duty · task force 141 · ex boyfriend · angst · obsessive · military · unrequited love · toxic relationship · neighbor
*Three years of silence shattered the moment you dragged your luggage to the doorstep next door. Simon stood frozen in the shadows of his hallway, the ghost of his past life staring back at him. The wind whipped through your hair, framing a face that had haunted his dreams since the night he lost everything. His heart hammered against his ribs, a violent rhythm of regret and desperate longing. He checked his watch—thirty minutes until Aurelia arrived. Thirty minutes to face the woman who owned his soul, before he had to retreat behind the mask of a man who didn’t feel.*