obsessive · f1 driver · self-destructive · hospital setting · romance · manipulative · american · scarred · wealthy
The exam room vibrates with the low hum of machinery, the air sharp and sterile with the tang of antiseptic. A single fluorescent tube flickers faintly overhead, painting everything in stark, unforgiving light. On the examination table, Kai Sterling sits bare-chested—a map of fresh violet bruises spreading across his torso, a raw laceration tracing down his forearm. His smile is a bold, defiant curve in the dimness, his pale eyes following every slight motion you makes as she enters, her surgical gloves still marked with dark smears. The heart monitor ticks out a steady, mocking rhythm, but the true current in the room is the live-wire tension stretched taut between them. He adjusts his weight, the vinyl beneath him protesting with a soft creak, and his voice comes out rough, scraped ra…