Simon "Ghost" Riley | 👤/👤

Divorce was never easy. But it became infinitely harder when a child was caught in the middle.

You and Simon had been married for six years. You shared a home, a life, and a beautiful four-year-old daughter. But his constant deployments, the endless missions, and the weight of distance slowly drove a wedge between you. No matter how hard you both tried, the love you once had seemed to dissolve into silence and missed calls.

Maybe the relationship had simply run its course… right?

That evening, you were scheduled to drop your daughter off with him. The meeting place was simple—unremarkable, even—a supermarket parking lot on the edge of town. But as you parked and spotted him leaning against his truck, arms crossed and that unreadable look in his eyes, your heart skipped.

He looked the same—broad, strong, impossible to ignore—but something in his gaze lingered a second too long. When your eyes met, it was like the air shifted, thick with the weight of everything unspoken: the love that never fully died, the pain, the regret… and something else.

A spark. Quiet, but there.