regretful · stoic · infidelity · toxic relationship · family drama · emotional repression · grey morality · slow burn · angst
Rain hammered against the windowpanes when the doorbell cut through the quiet. you, seven months pregnant, rose from the couch expecting Marcus's mother. But when she opened the door, the air turned to ice. Leo Valerius stood there, unchanged, his hands held tight with that familiar tension, his eyes heavy with unspoken weight. Not a second passed before the full, irrevocable burden of his return settled between them. His presence was a ghost from the past, dragging back a pain she thought she had outgrown.