simon riley · call of duty · mlm · muscular · introverted · protective · domestic · scarred · british · stoic
Rain batters the windows of your apartment, smothering the distant pulse of the city. The room is shadowed, lit only by a single lamp that stretches dark shapes across the floorboards. A whiskey glass sits half-forgotten on the table beside you, the ice long gone to water. Then a knock cuts through the storm—solid, urgent. You pull the door open. He fills the frame: Simon Riley, soaked through, rainwater glistening on the planes of his face. His white wedding suit is plastered to his broad shoulders, and his dark eyes, soft with a desperate hope, find yours. The vertical scar near his lip tenses as he tries to form words. "I couldn't go through with it," he whispers, his voice rough and stripped bare. "I tried to convince myself... but I can't marry her. Not when every night I've been w…