T(H)RUST - Ghost x Reader

Chapter 11

Almost as suddenly as it started, it was over. Ghost pulls his mask down and gets out of the room, you hear him walk out of the back door. You are left frozen in place. You can feel your heart beating in every extremity of your body. You move your hand to your mouth, touching your lips gently with your index and middle finger, they are warm.

You stand against the wall for a while, not really able to grasp what just happened. After a few minutes, having calmed down, you walk out of the room and into the kitchen. Price is sitting at the table, cigar in his hand and pinching the spot between his eyebrows.

"Where is Alejandro?" you ask him, wanting to apologize for what happened.

"Outside." Price says, nodding his head in the direction of the door. You walk outside. Alejandro is sitting on one of the plastic chairs. He looks up at you and you can see that some of the blood vessels in his left eye have burst, making the white of the eye red. He is holding a bag of frozen peas.

"Are you okay?" you ask.

"I've been better"

You sit down on the chair next to Alejandro, looking out into the night.

"I'm so sorry. I have no idea why he did that." you say, feeling guilty over the incident.

"Don't worry about it." he says as he moves the bag of peas to his eye.

"I just don't get why he would use violence like that."

"It's jealousy, cariño. It does things with people." You turn to Alejandro as he says this.

"Jealousy?"

"I can see it in his eyes." You think back to when Ghost walked out of the office right before the mission. His eyes had an expression you hadn't seen before. Was it jealousy? Ghost doesn't strike you as the type to be jealous. And you realize you actually don't know him that well.

"I shouldn't have kissed you, that was a mistake on my part." he continues. You are glad that he brings it up so you don't have to.

"Why did you do it?"

"You are a beautiful woman l/n, sometimes women like you are irresistible." You don't know how to feel about his statement. You don't view yourself as particularly irresistible and you are not comfortable with that description. You look down at your hands, noticing the bracelet and you start spinning it around your wrist

"I won't file a report." he says. You hadn't even thought about what would happen if Alejandro filed a report. Ghost would get a dishonorable discharge, all of his pay would be cut and he could go to jail. You feel relieved that Alejandro wouldn't file anything, even if he had every right to.

"Thank you so much."

"I did wrong and trampled on another man's territory, the consequences are as expected."

"Territory?" You wonder why Alejandro also talks about you as if you belong to Ghost.

"A man won't protect something like that if he doesn't consider it to be his."

After talking with Alejandro for a while, you decide it's time for bed. Ghost hasn't come back and you are worrying slightly. You try to get rid of the thought, but it keeps crawling back to the front of your mind over and over.

As you get to your room you take off your heels, and the pressure they have put on your feet disappears. You manage to pull down the zipper on the dress and you step out of it, folding it up hastily before placing it in one of the drawers of the dresser. After walking into the bathroom and turning on the lights, you meet your reflection in the bathroom mirror. Your lipstick has smudged a bit from the kiss with Ghost. As you think back to it you feel your heart speeding up. You wash your face in the sink and manage to get rid of the makeup, applying some moisturizing cream afterward. Then you brush your teeth.