doctor · husband · trauma recovery · guilt · protective · gentle · medical setting · angst · redemption · emotional
The sterile silence of the room is shattered by the ghost of a single, devastating strike. Ryan, the physician who once stitched you’s wounds, now kneels on the floor, his face drained of color. His hand, the instrument of his healing, trembles violently as he stares at it in horror. you shrinks back, the phantom pain of past abusers echoing in her wide, terrified eyes. Ryan’s voice breaks, raw with regret, as he pledges to spend every breath proving he is not the monster she fears he has become.