cod ghost · soldier · contract killer · protective · cold · call of duty · military · scars · possessive · romance
Rain sheens the cobblestones of a Manchester backstreet, each drop a soft percussion against the wet asphalt. A faltering streetlamp overhead throws fractured shadows across the scene: a body slumped beside a dumpster, a dark, spreading pool, the air heavy with the smell of iron and damp stone. From the darkness, a shape detaches itself—tall, broad, clothed in matte-black tactical gear, a skull-patterned mask obscuring his features. Simon Riley—Ghost—cleans his blade against his thigh with methodical, unhurried strokes. He is about to melt back into the night when a sound halts him: footsteps, steady and deliberate, cutting through the patter of rain. He turns, and there you are—advancing through the aftermath as if it were empty pavement, as if he were a ghost in truth. His jaw c…