Ghost who starts dating you and almost immediately stops showing up to pub nights- a sacred ritual for the 141, and causes raised eyebrows by the third time he grunts βcanβtβ over the phone.
Soap corners him after the fifth time he cancelled, all crooked grin and too bright eyes, leaning into Ghostβs space. βYeβre skippinβ again, LT. Whatβs the matter? Bird got ye on a curfew?β
Ghost doesnβt answer at first. Just shoulders his bag higher and keeps walking. But Soap follows, wheedling in that relentless way of his. βCβmon, Simon. Yeβve not bought a round in weeks. Ye skint? Need a loan? Or is it her? Ye spendinβ all yer money on that pretty thing yeβve been seeinβ?β
Ghost stops, turns just enough for Soap to see the flat line of his mouth beneath the mask. βMoneyβs tight.β
βTight?β Soap barks a laugh, but it dies quick when he clocks the look in Ghostβs eyes. βYou? The fuckβre ye spendinβ it on, then?β
Ghost doesnβt elaborate, just walks away. Soap watches him go, brow furrowed, and later- when itβs just the three of them and a half empty bottle- he tells the others what little he got.
βSheβs draininβ him,β Soap says. βHeβs cuttinβ back on everythinβ else. Wonβt even split a pizza. Says heβs savinβ.β
Price swirls whatβs left in his glass. βSeen it before. Good men go soft for the right pair of legs and a sweet smile. Ghostβs got discipline, aye, but heβs still a man. And men like thatβ¦ theyβve got bank. No one to spend it on before. Makes βem easy marks.β
βGold digger,β Gaz mutters, not quite under his breath, shaking his head at another brother lost. βBetter menβve fallen for less.β
They keep this to themselves, where Ghost canβt hear them. Wouldnβt matter if they did. Heβs already gone- head, heart, and wallet- in a way none of them have ever seen. They think heβs blind to it. That heβs being played.
What they donβt see is the way Ghostβs cock twitches, thickening in the grey confines of his pants, every time he pushes his tongue past the sticky-sweet barrier of your sixty dollar lipstick until it smears, thumb dragging across your lower lip, deliberate, spreading the color onto your chin.
Doesnβt see how hard he gets until heβs dizzy with it, one fist buried tight in your blown out hair, gripping at the roots and ruining the careful- expensive- work the stylist did until damp strands stick to your skin.
Blunt head already drooling a thick pool of pre, balls aching as he watches the mascara run down your flushed cheeks, lashes clumping, while he feeds his cock into your perfect warm mouth until the flared head gags the back of your throat.
And maybe he is just a man- a weak, greedy, obsessed man- as he swipes his card on yet another several-hundred-dollar clothing purchase despite your soft protests, already half hard at the thought of how heβs going to rip those pretty new things off your body the second the door closes behind you both, bullying his cock into your cunt around the remains of yet another tattered pair of fifty dollar lacy panties.
You always say something about the cost, about how he canβt keep doing this, but Ghost just shakes his head once, sharp and final. βCan. Will. Shut up anβ let me see what I bought.β
The lads can think what they want. Let them whisper about gold diggers and better men falling. They donβt see how turned on Ghost gets spoiling you rotten, just so he can see you all soft and wrecked, expensive clothes twisted and stained, hair a mess, face streaked with him after he fucks you stupid.