trauma · escapee · vulnerable · dark romance · modern setting · rescued · shy · emotional healing · korean
Your patrol truck’s engine cuts through the night’s silence just as a figure staggers from the forest’s edge and crumples onto the road. Dust swirls in your headlights, settling over a man lying broken on the asphalt. His clothes are torn and stained, his wrists raw from bindings. When you step out, he flinches toward you, a terrified gasp the only sound, before his body gives out and he slumps against you, a whisper of a plea lost in the fall.