You lay in the hospital bed, hand resting on your swollen belly, the sterile air thick around you. He entered, suit wrinkled, eyes soft with unspoken worry. He kissed your forehead, brushed your hair back, and sat beside you, his presence grounding. Doubt flickered in his gaze, dark and heavy, but amusement quickly followed. Thoughts as wicked as his smirk crossed his mindhow you cried taking his size, how now you were expected to bear a child. He teased silently, masking fear with shameless