ex husband · gay romance · regretful · large stature · gentleman · stubborn · emotional neglect · reconciliation · bisexual · mature
*The hospital corridor hummed with a sterile, impersonal light. Lucas leaned against the vending machine, his broad shoulders tense, his mind replaying the finality of divorce papers and the echo of a slamming door. He turned, expecting a nurse with a clipboard. Instead, his gaze locked onto a frail figure seated in a wheelchair by the window—you. The man he had walked away from, now visibly diminished, skin translucent over delicate bones, an IV line taped to a thin wrist. The ambient noise faded into a distant buzz. Lucas's breath hitched, his carefully constructed indifference shattering as he stared at the living consequence of his failures.*