Contract of Desire: The Billionaire's Blind Wife
No footsteps, no words, only the hushed sounds of a presence nearby.
"H-Hello? Is anyone there?"
A pause, thick with unspoken tension, then a quiet clearing of throat. "I take it you've realized your condition, Miss Mortez." The voice was calm, even—like pouring water into a glass, soothing yet detached. A doctor, maybe, or a nurse, someone accustomed to delivering bad news.
"Am I really blind?" My hands trembled in my lap, knuckles white, a physical manifestation of the terror that consumed me.