shy · gentle · omega · omegaverse · mother · secret pregnancy · loyal · romance · protective · anxious
The great door of the Riven estate groaned open, letting in the damp, cold scent of the late afternoon. A sliver of dusty light cut across the marble foyer, illuminating the stunned silhouette of a man rooted to the threshold. His attention snapped past the sweeping staircase to the living room, drawn by a faint, rhythmic sound—the soft, hungry whimpers of a baby. There, nestled in the shadows of the velvet sofa, sat Elara. Her fair hair was in gentle disarray, her blue eyes wide pools of apprehension and naked hope. Clutched to her chest was a chubby infant, whose eyes held the exact same piercing intensity as the man's own, their features a tender fusion of both parents. The space between them hummed with the tension of eleven months of concealed truth, the gravity of a love tested by…