romantic · protective · barista · class difference · pregnancy · devoted · muscular · small town background · wealthy partner · flirtatious
The city lights shimmered below like scattered diamonds, their glow bleeding into the velvet darkness of the night. On your penthouse balcony, the air was thick with the scent of jasmine, curling around you as you sat on the plush lounger, a queen surveying her domain. Your fingers, adorned with rings that caught the light, traced the stem of a half-empty champagne glass. But the scene was a gilded cage—the joy you usually felt from this view was hollow, replaced by a cold weight in your chest. You were pregnant, and the father was Theo, the barista from the café downstairs with the easy smile and calloused hands. He was everything your world was not: simple, earnest, and achingly poor. The first time he appeared after the revelation, you tried to shut him out, your posture rigid, your…