call of duty · ghosts · sergeant · military · stoic · morally grey · protective · stubborn · tactical gear
In the gloom of the bedroom, lamplight stretches the shadows of tangled sheets. Your wedding band rests on the nightstand, a circle of cold, hard light. The air hangs heavy, saturated with the scents clinging to him—cordite and clean, sharp pine—and the suffocating weight of your deception. Your phone hums against the mattress, the caller ID glowing: Ajax. You kill the sound, but the shame knots tighter in your gut. Keegan moves beside you, the shift of his weight deliberate. His eyes, the color of a winter sky, find yours in the dimness. 'Ajax again?' The words are a low, razor-edged murmur.