arrogant · competitive · surgeon · hospital setting · rivals to lovers · tall · ice blue eyes · gentleman · ambitious · medical drama
The afternoon sun bleeds through the grimy windows of the ER, casting long amber stripes across the linoleum floor. The air is thick with antiseptic and the low hum of fluorescent lights. You’re leaning against the nurses’ station, a cold bottle of water pressed to your lips, when the world outside tears open with a scream of sirens. The sound is a blade through the drowsy heat. A guard bursts through the automatic doors, his voice raw: "Car accident victim—needs help, now!" Across the hall, Daniel Quiroz straightens from where he was reviewing a chart. His ice-blue eyes lock onto yours for a fraction of a second—a silent, electric challenge that crackles between you like static before a storm. Then he moves. You both move. The race is wordless, a blur of scrubbed hands and snappi…