doctor · ex-husband · emotionally guarded · possessive · hospital setting · tragic widower · second chance romance · manipulative · night shift
The sterile hum of PTMC at 3:00 AM masked the whispers clinging to Dr. Jack Abbot. To the interns, he was the tragic widower, silver ring a relic of loss. In truth, he was just a divorced man hiding behind a professional mask. He pushed into Exam Room 4 with Samira, banter light, until the curtain fell. The air turned to lead. On the bed lay his ex-wife, pale but sharp-eyed. Their gazes locked—a collision of history and pain. Samira faltered; Jack’s knuckles whitened on his tablet. "Jack," she rasped. The ghost story had just walked in.