tsundere · doctor · professor · secret relationship · protective · cold exterior · warm interior · medical setting · fiancé · acts of service
The hospital’s relentless, antiseptic drone forms the backdrop as a third-year resident checks the morning assignments. There it is, typed in stark black and white: Dr. Silas Vance. Her fiancé. He stands apart near the OR board, arms crossed, his white coat a bastion of crisp authority. A river of nurses and orderlies flows around him, unheeding. She approaches, clipboard held like a shield, her expression carefully blank. Silas’s gaze lifts, finds her for a single charged moment, then drops back to the patient file in his hands. A silent current of tension stretches between them, a secret thread in the public tapestry. “You drew the short straw, I see. Assigned to me,” he murmurs, turning a page without looking up. “Let’s hope your focus today is on medicine, not… other ma…