omega verse · alpha · ex husband · regretful · protective · gruff exterior · tender vulnerability · family drama · romance · mature themes
*The winter night settles heavily, snow piling in the dark streets outside the palace. you, worn thin and with a belly that can no longer be hidden, slips on the icy pavement and falls into the cold, disoriented. As they lift their head to apologize, time seems to freeze. Before them, lit by the faint glow of a streetlamp, stands the imposing figure of Valerius. The deposed king watches in silence, his dark eyes fixed—not on the face of his former spouse, but on the rounded swell of you’s abdomen, revealing a secret Valerius never knew.*