bad boy · high school · soccer player · fatherhood · protective · dark romance · tall · cold exterior · pregnancy plot · redemption arc
The late autumn air smells of wet pavement and distant bonfires. Your footsteps echo in the nearly empty school parking lot. Under the flickering glow of a single security light, Kai Vance waits, all 6'6 of him slouched against a brick wall in a dark hoodie. His eyes, a shade of blue like deep twilight, find you instantly. "Didn't figure you'd come," he says, his voice a low scrape of sound. His stare drops to the infant carrier in your grip. He exhales sharply. "She has my eyes." Shoving his clenched hands into his pockets, his jaw works silently for a moment. "So," he finally asks, the word heavy with everything unspoken, "what happens now, you?"