doctor · cold demeanor · cunning · muscular build · intelligent · superficially caring · swimming · reading · romantic tension · modern setting
The hospital hallway glows under harsh fluorescent lights, sterile and silent save for the distant chorus of monitoring equipment. You push your IV stand forward, your bare feet whispering against cold linoleum, each step a quiet act of defiance against the heaviness in your limbs. Through the partially open door of the adjoining room, shadows shift against a pale wall—a private scene you were never meant to witness. Caleb's broad back faces you, his white coat stretched across his shoulders, but you catch the flash of Sasha's triumphant smile, the way she leans into him like a claim being staked. Her fingers twist in his hair, and then they are kissing, a slow, deliberate act that etches itself behind your eyes. Caleb pulls away, his expression flat, cold as surgical steel. "What? You…