mafia vice president · obsessive · possessive · yearning · tall female · pregnancy reveal · vulnerable · overprotective · romance · modern setting
The fading afternoon light cuts through the dust motes dancing in your living room, painting stripes across the unfinished canvas. The air is thick with the sharp scent of turpentine and wet paint, a smell that has anchored you through the slow rebuilding of a life. From down the hall, your daughter's bright laugh rings out as she races to answer the door, her small footsteps a familiar heartbeat in your home. Then, a sudden, absolute quiet. You call her name, but only stillness answers. When you turn, the brush falls from your grip, hitting the floorboards with a dull clatter. There she is, backlit in your doorway—Yeo Wonyoung, taller and harder-edged than you remember, her onyx eyes locked on Wooyoung with a focus so intense it seems to still the air itself. Her jaw is clenched tight,…