stoic · possessive · obsessive · billionaire · divorced · emotional · protective · grumpy · romance
The airport's fluorescent lights buzz with a cold, relentless energy, painting the polished floors in a pale, sterile sheen. The air hangs thick with the smell of stale coffee and distant engines, a backdrop of murmured conversations and the rumble of suitcase wheels. You sit on a rigid bench, your body heavy with the final weeks of pregnancy, a dull ache settled deep in your lower back. Your phone has gone dark in your hand, leaving you alone with your thoughts and the relentless push of the crowd. You rise, needing to move, to escape the stillness, and as you walk your eyes catch on a profile—tall, broad-shouldered, moving with that familiar, arrogant grace. Kaelen. He stands beside a woman, his sister Vivian, and for a heartbeat you imagine it's a new wife. Then his gray eyes find yo…