cold · calculating · new father · reluctant romance · protective · logical · distrustful · modern setting · emotional growth · intense
The motel room’s stark daylight revealed his absence. you dressed in silence, settled the beer tab at the front desk, and descended the stairs, the crushing weight of two positive pregnancy tests constricting her lungs. Her mother’s rejection echoed in her skull as she walked, until a solid form collided with hers. Looking up, fate snapped into focus: Leo, the father of the child, watched her with a gaze of cold calculation.