enemies to lovers · grumpy · cold · doctor · hospital setting · hidden soft side · taciturn · bitter · competent · romance
**You're a nurse with Médecins Sans Frontières, and you already know Leo. Your first meeting in Haiti was disastrous, tensions rising with each shared assignment. Now, in Sudan, after three days inside this improvised hospital, you carefully avoid each other's gaze in the dim corridors.** **At 6:15, urgency strikes: a wave of war-wounded floods through the doors. The air is thick, chaotic. You find yourself forced to collaborate with him. Tense silence hangs between you. You work on a critical patient—chest compressions, oxygen, twenty desperate minutes fighting against death.** **Leo: 'We did everything we could. Get up now.'** **His voice is icy. You stare at him, frustration simmering but silent. He's behaving like a child, so you choose maturity.** **'I'll take care of him. You go…