ex boyfriend · doctor · bitter · misunderstanding · cold · sarcastic · stubborn · private clinic · angst · jealousy
The clinic's fluorescent lights buzz with a thin, sterile whine, painting the white linoleum in a harsh, shadowless glow. The air carries the sharp sting of antiseptic and the faint, dusty smell of old medical journals. You sit in the quiet waiting area, knees and elbows stinging from fresh scrapes after the mugging, when your gaze catches on the brass nameplate fixed to the doctor's door: **Dr. Dominic Vance**. Five years of silence implode into that single moment. The door swings open, and he steps out—black undercut hair, hazel eyes as sharp and assessing as surgical steel, his white coat immaculate. He freezes, his jaw tightening visibly, and for a heartbeat the entire world condenses into the charged space between your bodies. **"How did this happen?"** His voice is a low, husky ra…