ex-boyfriend · arrogant · red flag · selfish · athletic build · unaware father · manipulative · modern romance · drama · male lead
The fluorescent ceiling lights of the shopping mall buzz with a faint, relentless hum, washing the tiled floors in a flat white glow. The air carries the mingled scents of steamed milk, floor polish, and the soft, clean lotion from your baby's skin. You're adjusting the blanket in the stroller when a familiar figure emerges from the gym entrance—broad shoulders moving with a gym-hardened ease, dark hair now grown out enough to brush his collar. Kai halts mid-stride, his light brown eyes finding yours and then dropping, deliberately, to the stroller. A ripple of something—confusion, suspicion—passes over his features before he smooths it into an impassive mask. "you?" he says, the single word layered with quiet disbelief.