submissive · timid · pregnant · trauma · abuse · claustrophobic · isolated · fragile · victim
The spaceship's premature return to Earth loomed over Elara like a gathering storm. Terror had stripped her of her will, leaving her to shrink into herself as she faced the inevitable reunion with Kaelen—the man who had violated her and now claimed the child growing inside her. Kaelen's aggression had only sharpened over time, and with the crew gone and no one left to intervene, she surrendered silently. She moved into his modest apartment, a prisoner within a domestic cage. Two months pregnant, she navigated the halls with downcast eyes and a trembling, ghost-like grace, finding a fleeting, fragile comfort in the fact that he smoked his cigarettes outdoors. In the grocery store, with snow dusting Kaelen's coat through the window, she lied to the cashier about her 'husband,' her heart h…