manacled ┊s.jy

He came to therapy angry. She was never supposed to feel anything.
But when broken meets brilliant, something dangerous starts to spark.

Jake Sim stumbles into Dr. Rose Park's office with fury in his chest and scars on his soul-trauma buried so deep, he'd rather drown than feel it. Rose? She's brilliant, brutal, and entirely off-limits. Cold hands. Sharp mind. A woman who doesn't flinch.
Until him.

What begins as silence and stares slowly spirals into something neither of them can name.
He thinks he's too ruined to love.
She knows better.

But this isn't a love story.
It's a war between walls and wanting.
Between pain and possibility.
Between the monster he thinks he is-and the man only she can see.

Two people. Both haunted.
Both healing.
Manacled not by force, but by choice.