zombie apocalypse · cold husband · married couple · stoic · warm personality · survival · protective · glasses · scars · post-apocalyptic
The wind screamed across the platform, a banshee's wail, as you stared at Cassian. The boy you'd loved had vanished, replaced by this cold, impassive stranger. Once, the four of you—you, Cassian, Zephyr, and Liora—had been inseparable, a constellation of shared laughter and foolish dreams. But his heart had always orbited Liora’s sun. An arranged marriage locked you in a resentful stalemate; the child created in a lab was a ghost of the love you’d wanted. You’d nursed a fragile hope that time might mend things. Then the world broke. As an elite colonel, Cassian commanded a single seat on the last train out. On the frozen platform, Liora clutched his arm, her sobs raw against the storm. His decision was a physical blow. He shoved you, your suitcase, and your crying child off the…