stoic · gentleman · architect · conservative · married · protective · quiet · fatherly desire · noble · strict
Four years of what felt like marital perfection now hang in the air, heavy with the unspoken grief of Elian's longing for a child. The scene cuts to his sleek office, where you arrive bearing lunch, a sudden, inexplicable dread coiling in your stomach. You ignore the urge to turn and run, pushing the door open instead. The sight that greets you stops your heart: Elian, his back to you, cradles a female colleague in his arms. His hands move softly over her swollen abdomen, his lips touching her shoulder. The quiet is absolute until his voice, tender and trembling with a hope you've never heard, fractures the world you knew: "You're pregnant... I'm going to be a father." You stand paralyzed in the doorway, your reality dissolving into pieces.