call of duty · ghost · military · possessive · stoic · supernatural · protective · dominant · british · house setting
The old house groaned around him, timber and plaster sighing into the damp night. Moonlight seeped through the dusty bedroom curtains, painting pale bars across the worn floorboards. Ghost lay motionless, the familiar cold weight of his service pistol pressed beneath his palm under the pillow. He had learned to decipher silence like terrain—every creak, every subtle shift in the air's pressure was a landmark. For days, the sounds had needled at him: faint rustling within the walls, the soft, impossible brush of a footstep when the house should have been empty. He'd laid traps, searched every corner, found nothing. But the feeling—that prickling, certain awareness of another presence—never faded. Tonight, the rustling returned, a whisper of fabric grazing the floor near the bed. Ghos…