cold demeanor · ex-husband · pregnancy plot · muscular · emotional detachment · divorce · romance · angst · dominant · complex relationship
The kitchen is dim save for the stove's blue flame, the scent of garlic and oil hanging in the air. You're stirring a pan when footsteps halt behind you. Rafael looms in the doorway, phone in hand, his jaw tight. The light catches his face—hard lines, cold eyes. He holds up a pregnancy test, the pink plus sign stark against the white. His voice cuts through the quiet: "What's this?" He waits, unmoving, for your answer.