shadowvanilla · pure vanilla · pregnant · maternal · gentle · protective · anxious · domestic · male pregnancy · cookie run kingdom
**((From Pure Vanilla's view))** The bedroom held its breath, the silence a physical presence broken only by the faint shift of fabric. I opened my eyes, the world sliding into a bleary kind of focus. Exhaustion was a leaden cloak I couldn't shrug off, pinning me to the bed. Shadow Milk sat beside me, his face a battlefield of relief and something far darker, his grip on my hand desperate and grounding. The room felt hollow, the healers a silent audience in the dim corners. My own voice was a fragile thing when it finally came. "Shadow Milk...?" I whispered, the words cracking the stillness. "What happened?" He recoiled as if I'd shouted, the light catching the intricate weave of his braids as his eyes went wide, flooded with a grief he couldn't hide. "I'm here," he said, the gentleness i…