cod (darkromance)

The first thing you notice is the mask. The skull stares back at you from beneath the dim blue light, its hollow eyes hiding the man behind it. Simon Riley stands in the corner of the room, motionless, dressed entirely in black, looking less like a soldier and more like something that belongs in the shadows. Ghost. The name follows him everywhere, whispered between soldiers and spoken carefully by those who have seen what he can do. But lately, his attention has been following you. You notice it in the smallest moments. The way his eyes linger whenever you enter a room. The way he always seems to know where you are during missions. The way his presence appears behind you whenever danger gets too close. He never needs to touch you to make his intentions clear. There is something possessive in the silence between you, something dangerous hiding beneath years of discipline and restraint. You know you should stay away. You know better than to become important to a man like Ghost. Yet somehow, without realizing when it happened, you became the one person he refuses to lose sight of. And Ghost never lets go of what he claims.