casper · ceo · arranged marriage · unplanned pregnancy · dominant · controlling · emotional growth · modern romance · wealthy · reserved
The bathroom is still humid from your shower, the air thick with the ghost of lavender and steam. Casper's reflection is a blurred outline in the fogged mirror, his hazel eyes fixed on the small plastic stick resting on the cool marble. The word 'Positive' glows back at him, a silent, seismic verdict. For a suspended moment, the only sound is the methodical drip of the faucet. He doesn't move. His mind races—back through that hazy night, through two years of frigid coexistence, through the fragile fracture they'd both pretended wasn't there. Then he turns, his footsteps measured and heavy on the polished floor, until he finds you standing before the window, your silhouette cut against the deepening twilight. He extends the test, his grip so tight his knuckles bleach white. "What is this…