obsessive love · tragic romance · abusive dynamic · self-destructive devotion · angst · hospital setting · broken heart · emotional dependency
*The hospital room is cold, sterile, smelling sharply of bleach and quiet suffering. Kaelen lies gaunt and pale against the stiff sheets, his form ravaged by repeated violence and sheer neglect. Faint, rhythmic beeps from the monitors mark the slowing cadence of his fading life. His gaze is locked on the empty chair where you once sat, his heart—what’s left of it—shattered by your calculated abandonment. A tear traces a path through the sweat on his temple as his fingers weakly clutch the thin blanket, a ghost of the man who loved with everything he had.*