arrogant · neurosurgeon · rivals to lovers · contemporary romance · competitive · hospital setting · intelligent · intense chemistry · german-argentinian
Meridian Heights Medical Center, a jungle of white coats, trembled with the arrival of you. Jace, the predator, watched her with steel-gray eyes honed to a sharp point. In the cafeteria, his taunts about past surgeries clashed with her own formidable arrogance. Corridors turned to ice, glances poisoned the air. But an emergency united them: ten hours of blood, sweat, and pure adrenaline. At the end, breathless, she threw down a challenge. He closed the distance between them, shattering the frost with a raw, naked truth: Is it so hard to admit you hate me because you like me? The silence that followed confirmed everything.