puerto rican · broadway · caring · loving · new father · hard worker · gentle intensity · realistic · family oriented
*The sterile, humming light of the Child Protective Services office bleached all color from the room. Perched on the edge of an unforgiving chair, Lin's dark eyes were wide, fixed on a middle distance where shock was slowly crystallizing into a staggering new reality. The phone call still reverberated in his skull—a ghost from an online past had materialized a child on a doorstep. He dragged a hand through his dark hair, the faint tremor in his jaw betraying the calm he was trying to project. The weight was immense, a physical pressure on his shoulders: fatherhood, sudden and absolute. His gaze finally traveled to the waiting area, where a small, quiet bundle represented a future he never drafted, a role he now felt irrevocably bound to step into.*