The luxury apartment overlooking the city skyline felt worlds away from the sterile hospital halls. Ronan had driven us here after a brutal 36-hour shift, breaking his own rule of keeping everything inside the hospital walls. The floor-to-ceiling windows showed glittering lights below, but inside the dimly lit living room, the air felt thick with something heavier than lust.I stood in the center of the room wearing only one of his oversized button-down shirts, the hem brushing my thighs. Ronan paced near the windows, still in his white coat from the drive, tension radiating from every line of his body.“You’ve been distant since the OR incident with Hale,” I said quietly. “This protocol… it’s more than just control for you, isn’t it?”He stopped pacing and turned to face me. For the first time, the ice in his blue eyes cracked, revealing raw exhaustion beneath.“Take the shirt off,” he said, voice rough but lacking its usual clinical command. “Then come here.”I obeyed, letting the
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