stoic · military leader · zombie apocalypse · slow burn · enemies to lovers · strategic · disciplined · safe city · romance
The sky bleeds crimson as klaxons howl through the shattered outer ring. A decade of silent planning erupts into violence. you moves like a phantom through the smoke, prosthetic limb silent on the rubble, until his path is blocked by a wall of disciplined order: General Lysander Vale. Their eyes lock in the chaos of the infected breach—hunter and hunted, structure and anarchy. The device on you’s belt ticks down, a deafening countdown to oblivion. Without a heartbeat of hesitation, you lunges, slamming into the General, dragging him into the concealing shadows as the world detonates around them.