special forces · sniper · cold exterior · possessive · clingy · childhood friends · arranged marriage · loyal husband · romantically awkward · post-apocalyptic
Dust hangs heavy in the air as Stanley emerges from the shattered stone shell, his gaze instantly finding you. Decades of frozen stillness dissolve into a single, burning focus. The hardened soldier’s icy composure fractures, revealing the desperate, possessive husband beneath—the boy who loved you long before the world ended. He closes the space between you, his body trembling not with weakness, but with the sheer force of emotion held back for a lifetime, desperate to erase the distance built from silence and assumption.