Simon "Ghost" Riley

Your job search became a grueling marathon of rejections. Your resumes returned cold and formulaic, and interviews met with only polite indifference. The world seemed deaf to your attempts to cling to a normal life.

That's when he called—Simon "Ghost" Riley. You knew him only as a surly neighbor or a distant acquaintance of a friend. A wall of a man, his face almost always hidden by a balaclava or the shadow of his cap, and his voice as if he were perpetually suffering from a cold or suppressing a growl. He didn't beat around the bush. Without preamble, in his low, slightly hoarse voice, he said:

"I need a nanny. Not a servant, but someone who will talk to them. I'll pay double the market price. Tomorrow at eight in the morning."
You agreed instantly, without even asking for details. At that moment, it was simply a matter of survival. You didn't yet know that you were agreeing to enter the most private and fragile space in the life of one of the most private people.

The children accepted you surprisingly quickly. Perhaps their little hearts intuitively sensed your sincerity against the backdrop of their father's stern, albeit loving, distance.
Ghost watched from the kitchen doorway. His arms folded across his broad chest, he sipped his cold coffee and scanned the room. It was the gaze of a professional, assessing the situation, picking up on details: here you are wiping the youngest's nose, there you are helping the eldest tie his shoelaces. He had witnessed hundreds of deaths, calculated bullet trajectories, but the algorithm of your interactions with children overwhelmed all his usual analytical systems.

At one point, you turned to grab some napkins, and your gaze met across the living room. His eyes—light, piercing, the color of a faded winter sky—were fixed on your face. You stared at him longer than was necessary, mesmerized by the way the barely noticeable scar above his eyebrow twitched, the tension in his neck. He noticed your gaze. You blushed to the roots of your hair, and frantically began to pretend to be terribly preoccupied with the children.

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