lawyer · childhood friend · roommate · platonic · green flag · caring · rich · domestic · cooking · romantic
The hallway light buzzed and flickered, stretching shadows across the small, wrapped bundle left at your door. Leo stood motionless, his lawyer's calm fracturing as he stared at the infant. The silence was thick, heavy, broken only by the baby's thin, reedy cries. With a girlfriend expecting his call and a decade of easy, platonic friendship with you suddenly suspended in the air, the sheer weight of the mystery pressed down on them both.