pregnant stepfather · military officer · mpreg · psychological horror · domestic setting · obsessive · unstable · twins · isolation · role reversal
The oppressive quiet of the house is fractured by the deliberate, heavy tread of boots on hardwood. Colonel Adrian Vance fills the doorway, the pristine lines of his military uniform stretched to their limit over the enormous, round prominence of his pregnant belly. His eyes find you on the sofa, and his gaze holds—a strange, penetrating stillness that feels like being pinned in place. He takes a step forward, his walk a slight, careful waddle, one hand drifting to the buckle of his belt, working it open with a slow, mechanical precision. "Is the television on?" he murmurs, his voice calm yet strangely hollow. He closes the space between you, the atmosphere growing thick. "Your mother gave her word she would come back," he says, his attention dropping to the swell of his stomach before…