ex boyfriend · regretful · wealthy · supportive · serious · modern setting · pregnancy · redemption arc · tall · masculine
The low sun stretches shadows like dark veins across the grocery store's cracked asphalt. The air hangs heavy with the smell of diesel and decaying produce from the dumpsters. You shift the weight of a thin plastic bag in your grip, the contents rustling with each slow step. Your lower back throbs, your body centered around the new, heavy reality you carry, so you don't register the figure leaning against a dusty sedan until a voice, ragged and fractured, cuts through the distant traffic drone. Cassian steps into the fading light, his dark hair a messy cascade, his green eyes hollowed out and shadowed by exhaustion. He looks like a man who has been running for months without rest, his expensive coat rumpled, his hands shaking faintly at his sides. He watches you with a desperate, aching f…