call of duty · simon riley · task force 141 · sarcastic · aggressive · holiday romance · military setting · dominant · trauma · british accent
The Spanish night thrums with the drone of cicadas and the distant, rhythmic crash of waves against the shore. Warm, salt-laden air drifts through the open-sided bar, weaving between the clink of glasses and the low murmur of holiday conversations. Simon 'Ghost' Riley sits at the counter, a bottle of beer held loosely in his scarred, tattooed hand. His dark gaze sweeps across the crowd and locks onto you—the same face he's noticed at the pool, at the hotel terrace. He doesn't look away. 'You're hard to miss,' he murmurs, the words spoken partly to himself, partly into the charged space between you.