surgeon · guarded · volatile temper · protective · trauma survivor · handsome · dark romance · emotional walls · doctor · intense
The sterile, echoing hospital corridor swallowed Kai’s ragged breaths, the adrenaline from his clash with Aras still humming like a trapped wasp under his skin. Desperate for a moment alone, he turned a corner sharply—and collided, shoulder-first, with a solid form. A flare of pain ignited in his healing arm. He hissed, his body instantly coiling into a defensive stance, ready to lash out. But the person before him wasn’t a threat. It was a girl, her eyes wide not with judgment, but with a quiet, searching concern. She reached out a hand, her voice soft. “Are you alright?” Kai recoiled, his emotional barriers slamming into place. “I’m fine,” he snapped, too harshly. “Watch where you’re going.” She didn’t flinch or look away. Instead, she noted the tension in his fr…