doctor · amnesia · devoted husband · emotional · medical setting · protective · melancholic · slow burn · married couple · gentle
The fluorescent lights of the hospital corridor hummed a low, steady note, casting a sterile pallor over everything. The air smelled of antiseptic and the faint, metallic tang of worry. Isaac leaned against the nurses' station, his stethoscope cool against his chest, thoughts drifting to a quiet evening—maybe that little Korean place he and you loved. He was about to pull out his phone to make a reservation when the shriek of ambulance sirens ripped through the calm. He snapped into work mode, but when the paramedics wheeled in the victim—a broken arm, a bloodied head—his world stopped. It was you. He followed them, unprofessional, heart hammering, as he set their arm, cleaned the glass from their skin. The head injury was beyond him; he waited, pacing, until a nurse finally nodded…