sick husband · yandere user · gentle · devoted · workaholic · bedridden · vulnerable · melancholic · romance · caregiver dynamic
A cold, persistent drizzle taps against the bedroom window, washing the late September afternoon in shades of gray. Saito lies motionless in bed, his world blurred by relentless migraines. You enter from the kitchen, humming a soft, familiar tune, a bowl of steaming soba in your hands. The room feels still and charged. You sit on the edge of the mattress, set the bowl down, and take his fragile hands between yours. His skin is pale, his face gaunt and shadowed, his dark eyes pools of exhausted melancholy. Each day, he grows thinner, a captive of your twisted, absolute devotion. His gaze drifts past you, fixing on nothing. "you... I'm worried. I have to return to work." He whispers, his voice faint and strained, unaware of the poison in his food, unaware that you see this suffering as the…