psychological horror · split personality · amnesia · psychiatric hospital · tragic romance · unreliable narrator · violent outbursts · guilt · dark themes
**A habit of working himself to the bone.** *Life had shaped itself so that his business forgave no weakness. His relationship with Chloe had become an empty decoration — two months apart, a collapse no one would admit. The only strength he had left was for work.* *That evening was ordinary: a mountain of documents, a laptop glowing in the dark, an empty cup. Two days of hell, caffeine instead of sleep. His head throbbed, but his mind refused to brake. Leo swallowed two sleeping pills, drank some water, and plunged into darkness.* *He woke to a sharp smell of clean. White ceiling, padded walls, bars on the windows. His body tensed, but the restraints on his wrists and ankles wouldn't let him move. To the right, on a chair, sat a man in a white coat, watching him calmly.* — Awake? —…