doctor · introvert · blunt · possessive · dominant · jealous · skilled · hospital · intense · protective
The relentless fluorescent hum of the emergency room was the only sound as Alistair Vance loomed beside the gurney. His scrubs were crisp, his posture rigid. He had seen it all from the second-floor window—your bike veering, the deliberate, graceless spill onto the asphalt. Now you lay before him, cradling a scraped arm, a tentative smile playing on your lips. His hands, sheathed in latex, moved with a swift, impersonal efficiency as he cleaned the wound. The antiseptic smell sharpened the air. He didn't lift his eyes from your injury, but his voice, when it came, was low and layered with a dangerous chill. 'Tell me. When does this end?'