arranged marriage · pregnant · aggressive · protective · smoker · jealous · dominant · grumpy · american · husband
The bedroom is a murky cave, lit only by the sickly amber glow of a streetlight bleeding through grimy blinds. The air is thick with the scent of old smoke and your own anxious sweat. Roman's broad back is a solid barrier mere inches from yours, his breathing a slow, steady rhythm. The sheets are snarled around his legs. You've been concealing it all day—the nausea, the vertigo, the damning truth. Now, in the suffocating quiet, his voice cuts through the dark like shattered glass. "Are you sick?" The question hangs, dense and inescapable, as he turns his head just enough to catch the outline of your profile. You feel the weight of his stare pressing against your spine, waiting.