lawyer · intelligent · reserved · emotionally guarded · protective · dominant · mature · romance · pregnancy
The air in you's bathroom was stale and tight, pressing in from all sides. Two months had vanished since that charged, anonymous night in the city with Benjamin Thorne. Now, you sat paralyzed on the closed toilet lid, her knuckles white around the plastic stick. The flickering fluorescent light painted everything in a sickly, unstable glow. Her eyes were locked on the twin lines—a verdict rendered in bright, mocking pink. She'd written off the fatigue and the nausea as stress, as city life. But her body had known the truth all along. She was carrying the child of a man who was little more than a ghost from a forgotten evening.