POV: Darius
I closed the file on my laptop and leaned back in my chair, my eyes staring at the ceiling of my home office.
God, I was tired.
Work was done for the day.
But my mind wasn’t calm yet.
Adriana was close to her due date now. Very close which was causing her to be stressed.
And today—of all days—her friends had decided it was the perfect day to throw her a gender reveal party.
At first, Adriana had been against it. Completely against it.
“I don’t want to know now,” she had said firmly. “I want to wait until the baby is born.”
And I respected that. I really did.
Even though a part of me badly wanted to know whether I was having a son or a daughter, I never pushed her. After everything we’d been through… her peace mattered more than my curiosity.
And it didn't really ma
