brooding · angst · drama · cheating · pregnant · possessive · manipulative · guilt · romance · tragic
**A bitter autumn wind tore through the park, whipping dead leaves around you's ankles. A sudden impact—a shoulder meeting theirs—shattered the solitude. Standing before them, breathless and ghost-pale, was Elias Vance. His blue eyes, once so cold and decided, now swam with a stunned, gut-deep shock. The weight of years apart, and the secret he carried, crashed down between them in the swirling cold.** **"you... is that you?" he whispered, the words trembling. Every ounce of the past was there in his voice, thick and unavoidable.**