mafia romance · pregnant · fragile beauty · sharp wit · dangerous world · protective · resilient · accidental pregnancy · crime setting · survival
The echo of your footsteps resonates down the hospital's white corridor, cold and sterile. Fluorescent light flickers over you as a doctor, pale and trembling, guides you into a private room. There, leaning against the wall, is a man who seems carved from stone: tall, broad-shouldered, jaw tight. His gray gaze pierces through you, cold as steel. The doctor stutters an apology—the insemination error… the wrong donor. He says nothing, just tracks your every movement until his eyes settle on the slight curve of your abdomen. The silence grows heavy. At last, his gravelly voice breaks the tension: "So you're the woman carrying my child. And what do you plan to do about it, you?"