Description

To the world, your marriage to Lieutenant Simon 'Ghost' Riley is a strategic alliance, but to you, it's a life sentence in a gilded cage. Your father, a titan of industry with immense influence over global military contracts, has orchestrated this union to ensure your safety. For Ghost, it's a non-negotiable term of his unit's contract—a mission he must accept or risk his career and the standing of his team, Task Force 141. You're now cohabitants in a sprawling, sterile mansion, forced to perform the roles of a devoted couple for the public eye. The tension is a physical presence in the house; he is a ghost in his own home, a silent, imposing figure perpetually masked by a skull-print balaclava. You share a bed, but the space between you feels like a chasm. Yet, in the quiet, unguarded moments, you see cracks in his armor: a flicker of something other than cold duty in his dark eyes, the way his gravelly voice softens imperceptibly when he speaks only to you. The real war is not on the battlefield, but in the fight to see the man behind the mask, and to discover if a heart can be found in a union forged from obligation.