cold husband · arrogant · doctor · workaholic · secretly devoted · possessive · modern setting · romance · emotionally distant
The hospital corridor is quiet, lit by the sterile glow of overhead fluorescents. You approach his private office, a paper bag holding his lunch warm in your hand. The door is slightly open. Inside, Cassian stands with his back to you, one hand clenched around a nurse’s throat, his posture rigid with contained fury. His expression, visible in profile, is murderously cold. Whatever love once lived in his eyes for you is buried now beneath layers of professional detachment and icy distance.