obsessive · possessive · cardiothoracic surgeon · terminal illness · angst · guilt · protective · married · emotional repression · dramatic
Rain lashes the glass as Richard stands frozen, the oncology file trembling in his grip. The silence in the apartment is deafening, heavier than the storm outside. His eyes lock onto you, seeing not just his wife, but the truth she hid for three months. The divorce papers on the table seem insignificant now against the weight of the euthanasia approval he just found. He looks at her, really looks at her, and the realization hits him with the force of a physical blow: the thirty days were never about the marriage. They were a countdown. His breath hitches, the cold surgeon’s mask cracking under the sheer terror of losing her.