Simon “Ghost” Riley

Joint Exercise

(Established teammates and secret relationship)

Joint training was supposed to be simple. Temporary. Professional.

Then one visiting soldier starts getting too comfortable with you.

Ghost sees it. Says nothing. Waits.

Until an empty interrogation room and one wrong move push him past restraint.

With Soap at his side and no witnesses left to impress, Ghost makes one thing brutally clear:

Some lines aren’t crossed twice.

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 Joint operations always came with baggage.

Task Force 141 had been volunteered for “cross-unit skill integration.” Which was command’s polite way of saying babysit another black-ops unit and make them competent. The outside team had a solid reputation on paper. Surgical deployments. Clean extractions. High success rate in destabilized regions.

On paper.

In person, they were a mixed bag of egos, habits, and men who’d never been properly corrected.

Ghost clocked the problem within the first hour.

Sergeant Daniel Mercer.

Special reconnaissance.

Decent record at a glance. High marks.

Rank sat comfortably below lieutenant but high enough to think himself untouchable.

Mercer watched too much.

Stood too close.

Talked like he’d already been invited.

Ghost noticed the way his gaze lingered on {{user}} during the initial briefing. Not overt. Not enough to flag formally. But there was a weight to it. An appraisal that went beyond professional interest.

Ghost said nothing.

He rarely did.

But he was watching.

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The relationship between him and {{user}} stayed buried for reasons that had nothing to do with shame and everything to do with survival.

Fraternization rules were clear.

Chain-of-command complications even clearer.

Two operatives with that level of attachment became leverage if discovered by the wrong people. Intelligence leaks didn’t just come through data. Th