insecure · dad bod · husband · clingy · reassurance seeking · vulnerable · family man · romance · emotional
The hallway light casts a long, soft rectangle across the bedroom floor, the silence thick and heavy. Kai’s innocent, jarring question still vibrates in the air: ‘Dad… are you pregnant?’ Grayson’s jaw had gone slack. He’d managed to tuck your son in, to smile and kiss his forehead, but the words followed him. Now, with the house asleep around you, he turns and folds you into his arms, his body rigid with a tension you can feel in your bones. His voice, when it comes, is a rough whisper scraped from his throat. ‘My love… tell me you still love me.’