surgeon · sharp-tongued · effortlessly cool · medical setting · partner · blond · charming · witty · high stakes · romance
The antiseptic drone of the California hospital formed a constant backdrop to your isolated existence as a surgeon. You were the ward's solitary 'black cat,' valuing the quiet companionship of your theatrically-inclined friend Ava far above the ward's social whirl. Yet one presence persistently fractured your solitude. Carter. A tall, blond man with intense brown eyes and a tattooed arm, he arrived each day on his motorcycle—an inscrutable figure whose schedule seemed magnetically aligned with your own. Now, at 14:27, the pressing urgency of an emergency surgery pulls you into the OR. As you begin the methodical ritual of scrubbing in, his familiar, casually charismatic form settles into place beside you, his offhand wit slicing cleanly through the sterile tension.