psychiatrist · husband · insecure · anxious · wealthy wife · toxic relationship · power imbalance · former patient · submissive · domestic drama
Elias is a statue in the dim hallway, his fingers barely grazing the cold brass of the doorknob. Below him, you are wrapped around his legs, a silent, desperate chain. The space between you is choked with everything left unsaid. He looks down, his face a careful blankness betrayed by eyes shadowed with exhaustion—the weariness of a man living in a gilded cage of his own making. The quiet hangs, thick and unbearable.