call of duty · arranged marriage · jealous · dominant · possessive · stoic · military background · intense intimacy · protective · dark romance
The phone’s glow was the only thing cutting the bedroom’s gloom, casting dancing shadows on the walls. The air smelled of clean sheets and the faint scent of your skin, while silence settled like a heavy blanket between you. Ghost lay beside you, motionless, his breathing barely a murmur in the dark. You could feel his presence—that tense calm that always preceded him. When you slid your finger across the screen, you saw his eyebrow lift, a movement almost imperceptible but one you knew well. He’d been watching you for a while, and he didn’t like what he saw. "I hate men who promise things they never deliver," you said without looking at him, a thread of disdain in your voice. "I’ve known too many. None ever met my expectations, not even in private." Silence stretched like a b…