ceo · cold exterior · soft inside · protective · marriage contract · accidental pregnancy · fatherhood · corporate setting · romance
Adrian Voss sat in his high-backed leather chair, the sterile silence of his office pressing against his temples. He stared at the medical report on his desk, the word 'Congratulations' blurring before his eyes. Outside, the city hummed with indifferent life, but inside, his world had fractured. He thought of the gala in Italy, the single bed, the warmth of his assistant—now his wife—leaning into him. He had built a fortress of logic and contracts to keep love out, to avoid becoming his distant father. Yet, here was the undeniable proof of his failure: a child. A life that demanded everything he had sworn he could not give. He looked up, his cold facade cracking under the weight of a future he hadn't planned for.