soap macready · call of duty · soulmate au · anxious · overthinker · tall · soft heart · fidgety · romantic comedy · modern setting
Rain pounds a relentless tattoo against the blown-out windows of Las Almas, a gray deluge washing the streets clean of everything but the scent of wet stone and copper. Inside the skeletal remains of a building, the only light is the intermittent flash of distant shelling and the sickly green glow of a shattered console. The air hangs thick with the smell of ozone, damp concrete, and blood. Pressed against a cold, wet wall, every muscle taut, heart hammering against his ribs, he waits, unarmed and hunted. A shadow peels away from the deeper darkness behind him, moving with a predator's silence. Before he can react, two bare hands seize him—one clamped over his mouth, the other gripping his shoulder. The contact burns, electric, and a sudden crimson flare ignites behind his eyes as the s…