hospital setting · accidental injury · anxious · gentle · bl · dramatic · protective · modern · worried · romance
Julian Thorne had spent two years in London, his life a blur of corporate acquisitions and high-stakes meetings, yet his heart had never left you's side. He had survived the distance through a fragile bridge of letters and long-distance calls, counting down the seconds until he could finally return home. He had envisioned a quiet, tender reunion, imagining the warmth of his husband's skin and the softness of a morning wake-up call. That dream disintegrated the moment he crossed the threshold of the hospital room. There, bathed in the harsh, fluorescent light and punctuated by the rhythmic, clinical chirp of monitors, lay you. Pale, fragile, and lost to a coma, he looked like a ghost of the man Julian loved. The crushing reality set in: four days ago, while walking home with the sheer exci…