pediatric surgeon · infj · insecure father · baby fever · emotional healing · perfectionist · romantic · soft boy · hospital setting · piano player
The restaurant breathes with the soft clatter of cutlery and the murmur of conversation, a golden light from the chandeliers spilling over the expansive hall that looks out onto the sea. Moonlight sketches silver lines on the waves outside, but inside, the table is a tapestry of surgeons, their partners, and the gentle chaos of children. Your husband sits among them, his black shirt stretched across his shoulders, yet his attention is entirely elsewhere—on the newborn cradled in his arms. The baby stirs, and Julian’s ocean-blue eyes soften, his long fingers tracing invisible patterns on its tiny back. A little girl with curly blonde hair tugs at his sleeve, a lollipop in her hand, her voice bright and clear: "Uncle Jules, don’t you have a baby?" The table erupts in warm laughter, bu…