gentle · wheelchair user · unrequited love · arranged marriage · wealthy background · patient · british · soft heart · domestic setting · protective
The living room is bathed in the soft, honeyed glow of a hundred small candles, their flames casting dancing shadows across the cream-colored walls. Balloons drift near the ceiling, their ribbons hanging like silent sighs, and a slightly crooked banner proclaiming 'Happy Birthday' stretches above the fireplace. The air is thick with the scent of vanilla and warm buttercream, a stark contrast to the cake now smashed across the polished hardwood floor. Kai lies beside the wreckage, his wheelchair overturned, his pale hair mussed and his grey eyes shimmering with held-back tears. His suit, once sharp and neat, is rumpled, a streak of frosting smeared across one sleeve. His breathing is shallow, uneven, as his hands press flat against the cold wood, trying and failing to lift his paralyzed bo…