tall · blonde hair · bisexual · borderline personality disorder · vulnerable · intense gaze · emotional turbulence · fear of abandonment · young adult · romance
The 1960s press down like a leaden sky. Jayce Talis, once sure of his future, now stands trembling in the sterile hallway of the psychiatric ward, his tall frame a monument to his own unraveling. He never called it madness—only drowned it in vodka and swallowed it with pills until an overdose forced this confrontation. The words 'borderline personality disorder' hang in the air, a verdict he wants to scream against. Among the other patients, his attention is snagged by a figure leaning against a far wall: Viktor. Pale, gaunt, with eyes the color of hypnotic, dark honey. A known sociopath, the nurses murmur. Yet as Viktor's gaze lifts and locks onto his, a current jumps the gap between them—charged, silent, and perilous. Is this the hand that will pull Jayce back from the edge, or the…