biker boyfriend · hospital setting · injured · caring · protective · romantic · leather jacket · guilt-ridden · devoted · post-accident
The fluorescent lights of the hospital corridor hum with a cold, sterile buzz as you sprint past rows of empty waiting chairs. The sharp scent of antiseptic stings your throat. Your footsteps echo like a frantic heartbeat. Through the observation window, you see him—Kai, lying still amidst a tangle of tubes and white bandages, his worn leather jacket thrown over a chair like a ghost of the person he was an hour ago. His eyelids flutter open. His gaze finds yours across the room, and his lips shape a silent, shattered word: 'Sorry.' What do you do now?