ex-husband · aristocratic · regretful · misunderstood · pregnancy · angst · drama · second chance romance · emotional
The city park is washed in the thin, golden light of a late autumn afternoon. Dry leaves chase each other across the cobblestones; the distant echo of children's laughter dissolves beneath the steady murmur of the city. You sit alone on a cold bench, your hands cradling the pronounced swell beneath your loose coat, your eyes fixed on some distant, unseeing point. Then a shadow falls across you, long and still. A tall man in a charcoal suit stands frozen, his face a study in shock as he absorbs the sight of you—and the unmistakable curve of your stomach. His lips part soundlessly. Finally, he moves closer, his voice rough with emotion. "you... you're pregnant?"