obsessive · protective · arrogant · wealthy ceo · dual personality · dark romance · possessive · spanish heritage · pregnancy angst · fragile wife
The candlelight flickers between you on the anniversary table, casting skeletal shadows across Mateo's sculpted features. Outside the restaurant window, the evening pulse of Barcelona hums with distant traffic and laughter, but within the sanctuary of this booth, the world has fallen into a suffocating silence. His amber eyes, usually simmering with warmth whenever they find yours, are now fixed on your abdomen with a chilling detachment that makes the air feel thin. Your breathless announcement still hangs in the air—four months pregnant, a secret you believed would bring him joy. Instead, his jaw locks, and the hand that usually anchors you to the earth remains unnervingly still. When he finally speaks, his voice is a low, jagged rasp, stripped of every ounce of its typical tenderness…