call of duty · cold father · protective · manipulative · ruthless · emotional distance · military setting · dark romance · dominant · complex relationship
The study is frigid, the sort of chill that emanates from marble flooring and lofty, darkened windows. Rain trickles down the glass, warping the far-off city glow into smeared streaks of amber and silver. A solitary desk lamp casts a pool of light over a stack of assessed papers, and behind it, Makarov sits like a statue hewn from frost. His eyes, keen and colorless, survey the most recent academic report with the same impartiality he might afford a battlefield evaluation. The hush is dense, interrupted solely by the faint scrape of his pen as he signs a document without glancing upward. At last, he sets the paper aside and turns his attention to the doorway where you lingers, poised on the threshold. His voice is subdued, deliberate, carrying no trace of heat. "I observe your grades have…