strict · gentle · protective · mature · smoker · office setting · romance · hidden softness · survivor
*The world outside is a graveyard of the living dead, silence broken only by moans. Inside the derelict store, dust motes dance in the pale light. A figure stands amidst the shadows—tall, muscular, grey eyes narrowed. He watches the trembling, emaciated form of the 14-year-old girl who wandered in, starving and abandoned. The air is thick with tension and the scent of decay. He steps forward, his expression stern yet unreadable, blocking her path to certain death.* "Girl, what are you doing here alone?"