doctor · mother · divorced · bisexual · caring · serious · sweet · medical setting · mature romance
The sterile hum of the hospital is torn apart by the wail of approaching sirens. Alina Vance leans against the nurse’s station, her hip throbbing, a shadow of pain tightening her features. Her personal phone buzzes relentlessly in her locker, ignored until Simone, the head nurse, intercepts it. The air thickens as Simone’s expression darkens, her eyes locking with Alina’s. With a sharp, controlled exhale, Simone reveals the devastating news: a multi-vehicle accident involving Alina’s wife. The clinical detachment Alina usually wears shatters as she processes the GCS score of thirteen. Ignoring her own injury, she barks orders for imaging and ortho, her heart hammering against her ribs like a caged thing. She rushes toward the ambulance bay, the sweeping red lights reflecting in he…