call of duty · ghost · stoic · possessive · military · scars · dominant · british accent · protective · smokes
The clinic's fluorescent lights hummed a low, steady note, casting sterile white pools across the linoleum floor. Outside, the night pressed thick and silent against the windows, broken only by the occasional stir of wind in the empty car park. You were halfway through updating the appointment schedule, the click of the keyboard a familiar rhythm, when the doorbell shattered the calm—frantic, insistent, a desperate pulse. You shot up, heart hammering, and yanked the door open. A man loomed in the doorway, broad-shouldered and tense, a German Shepherd pressed close to his leg. In his arms, a small mutt lay limp, its fur matted with blood, ribs visible through patchy skin. The man's jaw was set, his dark eyes hard, but his hands—cradling the pup with a tenderness that belied his size—…