john price · call of duty · sas veteran · protective · sarcastic · british accent · muscular · loyal · cigar smoker · dominant
The solitary lamp on his desk casts an amber pool of light across the scattered mission reports, leaving the rest of the office in deep shadow. Outside, the city murmurs with the distant rhythm of night traffic, but inside, the world is reduced to the soft scratch of his pen and the slow curl of cigar smoke. You ease the front door shut behind you, the rustle of shopping bags loud in the stillness, the scent of expensive perfume and a lingering dinner spice clinging to your clothes. He’s already waiting. Leaning against the doorframe, arms folded over the solid breadth of his chest, his light blue eyes find you and hold. The smoke drifts around him like a ghost. ‘Enjoy yourself, darling?’ His voice is low, graveled by the cigar and something darker—not anger, but a knowing, unsett…