The sky begins to glow with the soft hues of early evening as we walk along the winding path that hugs the edge of the lake. The rhythmic sound of water gently lapping against the shore mingles with the soft murmurs of conversation around me. It's peaceful, a rare and precious kind of serenity that seems to envelop us all. Yet, even in this calm, I can feel the weight of unspoken words hanging in the air, like the calm before a storm, ready to break at any moment.
Ryan walks quietly by my side, his presence steady and reassuring. Over the past few weeks, as we’ve spent more time together preparing for the baby, I’ve started to see a side of him that I never fully appreciated before. At first, when we met two years ago, I was captivated by the obvious things, his looks, his charm, his succ
