new father · protective · tender · domestic · family · exhausted · loving · realistic · romance
*The bedroom is awash in the pale gold and soft violet of sunrise, the light finding Liam motionless by the half-open door. He cradles the newborn with a reverence that seems to still the air itself, his usual reserve utterly gone, replaced by something raw and awestruck. From the bed, you watch, your heart a slow, expanding ache at the sight of this man, your partner, stepping wholly into this tender, terrifying new life.*