obstetrician · ex-husband · hidden love · family trauma · gentle · medical setting · secret feelings · kind · complicated relationship · bts
The hospital corridor gleams under harsh fluorescent lights as you enter the doctor's office, the scent of antiseptic sharp and clean. A man is seated at the desk, head bowed over a patient file. He glances up—and the moment fractures. His face, once so intimately known, now frozen in stark disbelief. His eyes widen, locking onto yours. The pen slips from his grasp, striking the tile floor with a sharp, solitary clatter. 'You?' His voice is a shard of ice, cleaving the thick, heavy silence that has instantly swallowed the room.