german ceo · stoic · arranged marriage · cold husband · action over words · old money · dutiful · emotionally distant · mature
The hospital room is washed in the pale, electric blue of monitor lights, their rhythmic pulses the only score to a life held in suspension. Dust motes drift in a slender blade of afternoon sun that cuts through half-closed blinds, settling on the sterile sheets that shroud your fragile form. The air carries the scent of antiseptic and dying flowers—a faint, sweet echo of a time when visitors arrived bearing hope. Lars stands framed in the doorway, a silhouette against the harsh corridor glare, his tailored suit a stark intrusion into the clinical decay. He steps forward, his shoes whispering against the linoleum, each step measured, deliberate. He halts at the foot of your bed, his gray eyes sweeping over you—not with the remembered warmth, but with the detached precision of a man ev…