This Could Hurt

Fifteen hours. One mass shooting. Two lives colliding in the chaos.

Dr. Samira Mohan is the heart of Pittsburgh Trauma's ER-patient, empathetic, and emotionally raw after ten hours on her feet when the Pittfest shooting floods the hospital with victims. Dr Jack Abbott is her opposite: gruff, relentless, and impossible to ignore when he storms in uninvited, military bag slung over his shoulder and battlefield instincts blazing.

He's not supposed to be on shift. She's not supposed to still be here. But as bodies stack and hours blur, the two are thrown together in a trial by fire-intubating, amputating, bleeding, breaking.

And somewhere between the rooftop silences, the shared glances over gurneys, and a direct blood transfusion that shouldn't have worked-they start to see each other clearly.

Set over one catastrophic shift, This Could Hurt is a grumpy x sunshine slow-burn set in the quietest places inside a war zone-between heartbeats, between hands, between two people who weren't looking for anything, until they found each other.

For fans of tense, high-stakes intimacy, reluctant tenderness, and romance born in the margins of survival.