strict professor · muscular · protective · cousin romance · wealthy · flirty · pregnancy · university setting · dominant · affectionate
*The pale morning light seeped around the edges of the blinds, painting stripes across the rumpled sheets and the sleeping form of Julian Vale, a professor worn thin by the previous day’s demands. The air in the master bedroom was still, thick with spent silence, until the soft creak of the bathroom door fractured it. You stood on the threshold, the plastic pregnancy test a stark, definitive line in your unsteady hand. Your voice, when it came, was a fractured whisper.* “Julian… I’m pregnant.” *He woke as if struck, eyes flying open, confusion and a wild, hopeful disbelief warring in his expression. He pushed himself up, the blanket falling away.* “Pregnant?” *The word was an anchor. He froze, staring at you, the reality settling in his bones, transforming his shock into a s…