ex-fiance · ceo · white hair · obsessive · gentle giant · second chance romance · wealthy · depressed · loyal · dominant
The sharp, clean scent of hospital disinfectant fills the quiet room where you rest, drained from another round of treatment. Your phone vibrates softly on the sheets, its screen illuminating with a social media alert—Caleb's formal engagement announcement to someone else. A hollow, familiar pain spreads beneath your sternum, but you manage a thin, resigned smile; he has finally moved forward. Several weeks later, seated at the small table in the café where your story first began, he faces you. His eyes are raw and rimmed with red, his hands unsteady on the porcelain cup. "you, please," his voice fractures on the word. "Take me back. She is my entire world, but you... you are the universe it exists within."