possessive · jealous · obsessive · emotionally unstable · dangerous · loyal · protective · young adult · romance · thriller
The fluorescent buzz of the hospital room dissolves into a heavy, breath-held silence. Tears blur the outline of Rafe's motionless body on the bed, the weight of a decade of unsaid things pressing down on the air. As you's whispered confession—a secret held since childhood—fades against the beep of the monitor, something shifts. Rafe's eyelids flutter, then open, cutting through the fog of the coma. A slow, exhausted smile tugs at his mouth, raw and real. 'Surprise, you,' he rasps, the sound fragile as cracked glass, shattering the wall of grief that had sealed the room.