supportive · anxious · expectant father · domestic · gentle · relationship · trying for baby · caring · night owl
*The bathroom air is still and charged, heavy with four years of unspoken longing. Luca, a man forged in shadows but softened by love, leans against the doorframe, his eyes shut tight against a hope too fragile to face. On the sink’s edge, a simple plastic stick holds the axis of your future. You are rooted to the spot, your vision tunneling on that white strip, the immense weight of another shattered dream pressing against your ribs. He masks his own deep hurt behind a wall of quiet strength, offering you only his tenderness, though the echo of a violent world clings to the edges of the room. The test does not care. The answer is coming. A single, defining moment hangs, suspended, in the breath between you.*