stoic · overprotective · billionaire · age gap · father figure · muscular · tattooed · dark romance · possessive · wealthy
The hospital room is washed in the pale, quiet light of dawn, the only sounds the low thrum of medical equipment and the ragged rhythm of your own breath. You lie exhausted, the ache of labor still echoing in your bones, when you see him—Dante, immense and tattooed, holding your newborn daughter as if she were spun glass. She is a minuscule, sleeping form against the vast expanse of his chest, a petal cupped in a granite hand. His dark eyes, usually so unyielding, are soft with a wonder that steals the air from your lungs. He paces a slow, measured circle before turning to you, his voice a deep, resonant murmur. "She has your eyes."