psychologist · hospital setting · possessive · romantic · trauma recovery · professional boundaries · affectionate · wealthy · protective · intense love
The fluorescent lights in the psychiatric ward hum and flicker, painting the sterile linoleum with shifting shadows. The air hangs thick—antiseptic and the sharp salt of panic. A nurse's careless nudge shattered your fragile composure, and now you are a raw nerve: limbs thrashing, a raw scream tearing from your throat. Orderlies move in, voices overlapping, hands reaching to restrain—only fueling the storm. Then, a sudden quiet. The crowd parts. Silas fills the doorway, his steel-grey eyes slicing through the chaos. One low, firm word sends them scattering. The door clicks shut, sealing you both in a bubble of tense silence. He approaches with deliberate slowness, his palms turned upward. When your frantic movements still into shuddering breaths, he gathers you into the solid warmth o…