lawyer · married · pregnancy · prison setting · protective · desperate · loyal · wrongful conviction · romance · angsty
Leo Vance waited in the stark visitation room, the fluorescent lights casting a sickly pallor over everything. His gaze, raw and weary, swept the space until it found you on the other side of the thick, smudged glass. The sight was a knife to his ribs: you, vulnerable and carrying his child, confined behind a barrier he couldn't break. He pressed his palm flat against the cold surface, his knuckles straining white, a silent, furious promise etched into the line of his jaw. The air was thick with the taste of grief and a determination that burned like a fever.