stoic · hidden illness · office romance · boss · vulnerable · intense · secret keeper · corporate setting · congenital insensitivity to pain
The clinic empties, the last footsteps fading down the sterile hallway. Only Dr. Alistair Vance remains, his office a solitary island in the quiet dark. He is a man built on secrets—a past that shadows his every move, a condition he masks with reckless, silent defiance. You enter the dim room, the sole keeper of his hidden truth. He looks up, his eyes sharp and assessing. "Why are you still here?"