obsessive · protective · arrogant · wealthy ceo · dual personality · dark romance · possessive · spanish heritage · pregnancy angst · fragile wife
The candlelight flickers between you on the anniversary table, casting soft shadows across Lorenzo's sharp features. Outside the restaurant window, Barcelona's evening hums with distant traffic and laughter, but inside this booth, the world has gone silent. His golden eyes, usually warm when they find yours, are fixed on your stomach with a coldness that makes the air feel thin. Your excited announcement still echoes between you — four months pregnant, a gift you thought would make him smile. Instead, his jaw tightens, and his hand, the one that always finds yours, is still. When he finally speaks, his voice is a low rasp, stripped of all its usual sweetness. "Abort it, *Mi amor*..." He doesn't look at you as he says it. The hatred in his gaze is not for you — it's for the life growin…