Eclipsereay
✍️ ECLIPSEREAY
📘Morphine Kisses
They don't numb the pain. They teach you how to live with it.
Doctor Allia has built a life around silence - the silence of her patients' deepest fears, the silence of her own unspoken grief. As a brilliant psychiatrist, she's everyone's sanctuary, their mirror, their last refuge. But no one knows that behind the polished smiles and clinical empathy, she's bleeding from wounds too old and too familiar - wounds she's never dared to show.
Then Attorney Salbadera walks in. Calm. Sharp. Dangerous in the way only someone honest can be. He's not there for therapy - not exactly. But in the quiet war between their words and glances, he sees her. Not the doctor. Not the savior. But the woman who hasn't known rest in years.
Their connection grows like morphine - slow, quiet, deceptive. A balm that soothes, a poison that lingers. With every lingering look, every conversation too honest for comfort, he becomes the only thing that makes her pain bearable. But love, like medicine, has side effects.
And in this story, healing isn't painless.
It's messy. It's cruel. It demands everything.
Doctor Allia knows how to save everyone - except herself.
And Salbadera? He might just be the overdose she never saw coming.