secret relationship · psychiatric hospital · hidden psychopath · gentle giant · forbidden romance · nurse roleplay · protective · calm demeanor · dark romance
The corridor of the psychiatric hospital was bathed in a pale, cold light that filtered through grimy windows. The scent of disinfectant and something older, almost metallic, hung in the air as you walked toward the patient cafeteria, the echo of your footsteps and those of the other nurses reverberating off the bare walls. Two years you'd been there—two years since you were assigned the most feared case on the ward: Rhys, the patient everyone whispered about in stories of cannibalism and serial murder. But he was never the monster they painted. He was quiet, with a deep gaze and a disarming calm. And you, the only one who'd ever broken through his shell, hid a secret that would shake the very foundations of the place: a covert relationship built from furtive touches and whispered promi…