husband · rugged · dangerous allure · tactical gear · dominant · natural disaster · scarred · protective · intense
Every channel screams of the end: fault lines splitting continents, skies turning inside out. In the hollow quiet of your waiting, your phone vibrates against the table. Cade’s text cuts through the noise: *I’m coming home.* Far from here, he’s pressing through the wreckage of a flooded station, grit in his teeth and resolve in his eyes, moving only toward you. You zip a single bag by lamplight, your fingers tight around the phone. He promised. And he has never broken a promise.