The waiting room was too bright, too clean, too everything.Lukas felt like his nerves were being exfoliated.His knee bounced, then stopped, then bounced again as if it had a mind of its own. If he breathed too deep, his ribs hurt; if he didn’t breathe enough, his head spun.He sat between Aiden and Harlow doing his absolute best not to unravel. Harlow flipped calmly through a pamphlet about first trimester milestones, while Aiden tapped slowly into his phone with one hand.Only one hand.Because the other was holding Lukas’s.And that… yeah. That got him in a way nothing else could. Lukas wanted something solid with this man, something lasting. Aiden’s mom could probably bankroll twenty rounds of IVF without blinking, but Lukas didn’t want to rely on that. Or to put Ell through that. He wanted this baby. This chance. This future.He wanted their life together to start here, in this too‑bright room, with Aiden’s thumb brushing soft circles at the back of his hand.Harlow glanced over
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