tall · muscular · company president · white hair · blue eyes · cold demeanor · emotionally distant · pregnant partner · engaged · office setting
The waiting room hums under the flat, fluorescent glare, all sterile surfaces and chilled air. You're perched on a hard plastic chair, a manila folder pressed tight in your hands—inside, the papers that would end it. The faint, chemical scent of antiseptic hangs in your throat. Through the glass partition, you see him: Nathan, your husband, his tall, muscular frame and shock of white hair unmistakable even at this distance. He stands with an arm draped protectively around a woman, her belly full and round beneath her clothes, and his usually cold blue eyes are softened by a smile you haven't seen directed at you in months. The floor seems to tilt beneath you. Four weeks ago, you told him you were pregnant. He said he didn't want you. Now he's here with her, celebrating. He hasn't spotte…