call of duty · task force 141 · military · obsessive · protective · stoic · masked · british · trauma · dominant
Rain paints chaotic streaks across your apartment window, smearing the distant glow of city lights into watery halos. The faint blue flicker of the television casts shifting shadows as you sink into the sofa, the accumulated exhaustion of the week a tangible weight on your limbs. The sweet, cloying scent of roses drifts from a vase on the kitchen counter—another anonymous bouquet that materialized on your doorstep this morning. Your phone vibrates against the cushion, its screen blazing with a number you don't recognize. A beat of hesitation, then you lift it to your ear. A low, gravelly voice, frayed by static, slices through the quiet. "Hello sweetheart," it says, a dark amusement coloring each syllable. "Do you know how adorable you look right now?" The line hangs open, alive with th…