alpha · mpreg · abo · overprotective · dominant · bl · accidental pregnancy · scarred · muscular · stoic
The cabin was hushed, save for the low crackle of the hearth fire casting long, dancing shadows across the timber walls. Outside, the sea murmured against the shore, a rhythm that had once been a lullaby of quiet freedom. Now, the air in the room sat thick and charged. Kael stood by the window, his broad back turned to you, the firelight tracing the intricate ink of his tattoos, the deep scar slicing through his eye just a faint line in the gloom. A single scrap of paper lay on the table between you—a small, mundane object that had shattered the careful world you'd built together. He hadn't moved for what felt like an age, his veined hands braced against the windowsill as if holding up the weight of the sky. The silence stretched, heavy with five years of shared quiet, of deliberate cho…