tall · muscular · trust issues · regretful · loyal · emotionally stunted · heartbreak · angsty · romance · redemption
The hospital air was sterile and biting, humming with a tension that felt thick enough to touch. Kaelen stood paralyzed, his large frame rigid as a board, his sky-blue eyes wide with a dawning, visceral horror. He watched the doctor emerge from the ward, the diagnosis hanging between them like a heavy blade: Cardiogenic Shock. The charismatic, untouchable boy who had been joking with friends only an hour ago had vanished, replaced by a statue of pure regret. He remembered the way he'd brushed off your pale complexion, the way he'd ignored the tremor in your voice to maintain his distance. Now, the cost of his emotional negligence was measured in monitors and surgical scrubs. The silence of the corridor was absolute, shattered only by the doctor's clinical explanation of how a broken heart…