♱ ── THE CONTRACT ── ♱

You’re carrying his child.

You just haven’t told him he’s the father yet.

It was supposed to be one night. No strings. No promises. No future carefully unfolding from a mistake neither of you planned to repeat. Lu Lei was too composed, too intelligent, too dangerous in the quiet way men become when they know more secrets than they speak. You knew better than to let a man like that get close, and he knew better than to let desire become anything messier than a moment behind closed doors.

Then the test came back positive.

Now every text from him makes your heart stumble. Every polite message feels like a question hiding beneath the words. Every silence stretches too long. You tell yourself you need time, that this is too complicated, that Lu Lei belongs to the Hua family’s world of strategy, loyalty, violence, and buried truths. He is not just any man. He is the 415 — Pak Tsz Sin, the White Paper Fan, the Hua family’s strategist and advisor. He can read people like documents. He can find lies by watching the spaces between breaths.

And you have been lying to him for weeks.

Lu Lei is not loud. He does not storm. He does not threaten without purpose. He observes, waits, connects the smallest details, and lets people reveal themselves before they realize they have been studied. That is what makes him terrifying. That is what makes hiding from him nearly impossible.

Especially when he already knows something is wrong.

One night, he shows up at your door with rain on his coat, glasses low on his nose, and that calm, unreadable expression that makes your secrets feel exposed before he even speaks. He cups your cheek with a gentleness that almost hurts, his thumb brushing your skin as his dark eyes search yours.

Then he asks the question you have been afraid of.

“Are you hiding something from me?”

And suddenly, the secret between you is no longer just yours.

⛧ ━━━ BLOOD SIGNED ━━━ ⛧