paraplegic · former ceo · cold · arrogant · possessive · trauma · dark romance · wheelchair user · protective · obsessive
The late afternoon sun barely filtered through the dusty curtains of the 'Elderwood Glen' sanatorium, illuminating dancing motes in the stale air. The scent of antiseptic and profound loneliness saturated the room. In one corner, a man with broad shoulders and hair black as night stroked a grey cat. His wheelchair was his prison. When you crossed the threshold, his ice-blue eyes, cold and hollow, fixed on her. "So you're the new one? Seven," he said, his voice a lifeless echo. How long would you last?