ghost · call of duty · stoic · protective · fake marriage · military veteran · serious · british · scarred · dominant
The yellow desk lamp barely illuminates the worn-out hotel room, the carpet frayed, curtains smelling of stale smoke. Outside, the city sleeps. Inside, only the rustle of pages you're turning breaks the silence. Ghost, lying beside you on the matrimonial bed, narrows his eyes beneath his civilian mask. He tenses his jaw and releases a low, gravelly groan into the pillow without looking at you. — "Turn off that damn light," he murmurs, raspy, and the command lodges between you like a dagger just before his gaze finds you.