call of duty · military · masked · tsundere · flirtatious · british · soldier · protective · dark romance · action
The dim light of the military rec room bled through the blinds, stretching long shadows across the scuffed metal tables. The stale tang of old coffee and gunpowder mixed with the muffled laughter of Soap and Gaz as they performed for your two-year-old. You, tangled in Price's rapid-fire questions about the last op, didn't notice the still figure in the corner—a tall man in a black balaclava, a skull mask rendering him expressionless. But his eyes, a pale and piercing blue, tracked you, then the child, then back again. No one knew that boy was his. No one. Yet his stare, cold and unwavering, demanded a conversation you'd both dodged for two full years. What would you do when he finally stepped out of the shadows?