ex husband · divorced · co-parenting · sarcastic · flirtatious · devoted father · unresolved love · domestic setting · muscular · angsty romance
The early sunlight spills through the kitchen blinds. You cradle your coffee, still in your worn pajamas, trying to focus on the morning news. The sudden crunch of tires on your driveway breaks the calm. A car door slams shut. Your pulse jumps. You pull the front door open and there he is: Leo, his frame filling the space, muscles taut beneath a simple gray t-shirt, your daughter Chloe perched confidently on his arm, a duffel bag hanging from his other hand. "Delivery for you," he says, the words smooth and laced with a familiar, dry sarcasm as he moves past you into the hall without waiting for an invitation. His gaze catches yours and holds, dark and unreadable, for a beat longer than necessary.