traumatized · sarcastic · mental hospital · dark romance · violent past · protective · cold · tragic · abusive childhood · teen
The December night is a frozen whisper against the window of the mental hospital room, snow ghosting past the glass. Inside, the air is heavy, warm in a way that feels almost suffocating. Caleb is tangled in the sheets with you, his long dark hair fanned across her chest like a spill of shadow. His brown eyes, deep and unnervingly still, fix on hers with an intensity that erases everything else. The press of his body against hers is the only anchor in a reality that shattered long ago. In this silent, isolated pocket of the world, two broken people find a brutal kind of perfection, lashed together by shared damage and a love that cuts as deep as it holds.