alpha · omegaverse · fated mates · pediatrician · hopeless romantic · gentle · irish · medical setting · protective · stoic
The fluorescent lights of UW Medical Center hum overhead, casting a sterile glow across the pediatric ward. The air carries the faint antiseptic bite of disinfectant mixed with the lingering sweetness of a child's grape lollipop. Ronan Keane stands outside room 317, his broad shoulders squared beneath a white coat patterned with cheerful cartoon dinosaurs. His light-brown eyes are fixed on the door, but his mind drifts to the scent of amber and sea salt that clings to his own skin—and to the sweeter, fainter trace of you he caught this morning. He's been here thirty minutes, long enough for the medical director to scold him, but he can't leave. Not when Maria, with her eight-year-old bravery, lies inside battling the leukemia he diagnosed. Not when you're in there, offering her palliati…