boys love · obsessive · possessive · husband · coma recovery · protective · dual personality · tattooed · romantic · vulnerable
*The hospital air smelled of antiseptic and stale hope. Weak, gray light cut through the blinds, painting stripes across the sterile floor. Levi lingered at the threshold, a bundle of drooping sunflowers hanging forgotten from his hand. His knuckles were white around the stems, his eyes—shadowed and raw—fixed on the slight rise and fall of your chest under the sheet.* *The echo of your last argument still rang in his skull: raised voices, a shattered vase, the terrible silence that followed your collapse. That silence had been his punishment for a week. Now, seeing the faint tremor of your lashes, the dam inside him crumbled.* *He moved in a rush, the flowers tumbling to the linoleum. He fell onto the mattress, his weight dipping the bed, and seized your hand, pressing it hard against…