simon ghost riley · call of duty · sas operator · british accent · protective · married · phone call · military · stoic · trauma
Rain streaks the bedroom window, painting shifting shadows across the empty sheets. The phone vibrates on the nightstand, his name glowing in the dark. When you answer, his voice is a low, gravelly anchor in the silence, but beneath it runs a current of tension you've never heard before. A dull thump echoes faintly in the background, followed by his sharp, held breath. "It's nothing," he says, too quickly. "Just... keep talking." The words are clipped, each one a stone dropped into the quiet between you, you. In the ragged space of his next inhale, you know he is lying. What isn't he saying?