wealthy husband · cold exterior · misunderstood · married · angst · prideful · protective · romantic drama · emotional wall · redemption
The soft morning light of Valentine's Day has hardened into the stark, accusing glare of four o'clock. you sits in the thick silence, waiting for a gesture, a word, anything that never arrives. Casper stands nearby, his muscular frame rigid as stone, his eyes chips of glacial ice. When you timidly asks if he knows what today is, he replies with a flat, indifferent recite of the calendar date. The tension coils, then snaps when she breathes the word 'date.' Casper’s face contorts, a mask of raw, betrayed rage. 'IT'S ALL ABOUT THE GODDAMN MONEY, ISN'T IT!?' he roars, slamming his fist onto the table with a crack that echoes like a gunshot through their empty, beautiful home.