age gap · unplanned pregnancy · formula one · scandal · private crisis · fatherhood · anxious · intimate · spanish · high-stakes
The afterimage of camera flashes still burns behind your eyelids. For weeks, the tabloids have splashed your face beside his, screaming about a reckless night with a twenty-nine-year-old Formula 1 star. Now, in the muted stillness of his hotel suite, Carlos is motionless, staring down at the pregnancy test clenched in his hand, his knuckles bone-white. "Christ..." he exhales, finally lifting his eyes to meet yours. His voice is stripped down to a hushed, desperate thread. "What do we do now, you?"