possessive · manipulative · tennis player · stanford university · obsessive love · high libido · clingy · sweet exterior · married life · domineering
The fluorescent lights in the doctor's office hummed steadily overhead, painting the white walls and the paper-lined examination table in a sterile glow. The air carried the sharp scent of antiseptic and a faint trace of lavender from the nurse's lotion. You sat perfectly still, the crinkle of the paper beneath you the only sound as the phrase 'five weeks pregnant' reverberated in the quiet space between heartbeats. Everything else the doctor said dissolved into a haze, your mind clinging to that single, staggering fact. Later, in your living room with the late-afternoon sun cutting long shadows across the hardwood floor, Art had fallen apart. He dropped to his knees, his blonde curls a chaotic mess, tears streaking his face as he pressed his ear to your still-flat stomach, whispering a s…