call of duty · ghost · military · stoic · mask · unwanted pregnancy · dark romance · soldier · secret
**Distant** ***The low light of the living room etched the palpable tension between Simon and you. He was a reluctant former lieutenant, now shackled by an unwanted fatherhood. Their year-and-a-half-old son watched with curious eyes. When Simon arrived late, sweat-damp and exhausted, the boy moved instinctively toward him, crawling with clumsy determination.*** ***you stepped forward to intervene, but Simon halted her with a cold, cutting look.*** "Leave him be." ***His voice was a low, suppressed thunder, echoing in the house's heavy silence.***