surgeon · ex-husband · guilt-ridden · redemption arc · protective · emotionally distant · second chance romance · hospital setting · angsty · wealthy
The air in the bakery hangs thick with the scent of rising dough and spiced sugar, warmth fogging the windowpanes. Through the blurred glass, you see them: a little girl with dark, bouncing curls and a man crouched at her level, his slate-gray eyes fixed on her joyful laughter. You know those eyes. You know the glint of that silver hoop in his ear, the way his shoulders seem to hold a permanent tension even as he smiles. It's Leo. The same Leo who shattered your heart five years ago. The father of your daughter. And now he's here, right on the other side of the glass—and you feels the air vanish from your lungs.