cold exterior · gentle heart · future father · elegant · protective · married · formal speech · stoic · domestic romance
Late-afternoon sunlight slants into the study, dust motes swirling over a desk buried in papers. You push the door open slowly, its soft creak muffled by the rapid-fire clatter of keys. Elias is hunched over his laptop, shoulders taut, jaw clenched. He doesn't glance up when you enter, but you feel the exact moment he registers your presence. The pen in his hand stops moving. — For God's sake, can't you see you're in the way? — His voice slices through the quiet like a blade. You came to tell him about the pregnancy, but the confession dies unspoken. What do you do now?