Kiss the Wound Open
Some wounds stop bleeding. Others start telling the truth. When Elena Marquez works the midnight ER shift, she's trained to save lives-not reopen her own.
Elena is the nurse everyone wants in a crisis: calm hands, sharp instincts, an unbreakable spine built from too many long nights. But when a bloodied stranger stumbles through the sliding doors and collapses under fluorescent lights, her body reacts before her mind can catch up. She knows that face. She knows the way his presence rewrites the air. And she knows the past is never really past when it shows up bleeding.
He isn't supposed to be here, and he definitely isn't supposed to be alive. Yet there he is-danger in a dark jacket, pain clenched between his teeth, eyes that still know how to undo her. He needs stitches, secrecy, and a place to hide. Elena needs answers she's spent years refusing to ask. One touch becomes a spark. One choice becomes a door that won't close again.
As the hospital hums with routine chaos-paging speakers, curtained bays, the steady chirp of monitors-someone starts looking for him. Elena is forced into a terrible balancing act: protect her patients, protect her license, and protect the man who once broke her heart...or save herself by handing him over.
Because the deeper Elena digs, the clearer it becomes: the night he disappeared wasn't an ending. It was a cover-up. And the truth isn't just dangerous-it's intimate, personal, and aimed straight at her.
If you love romance that hurts so good and burns even better, step into the ER where every heartbeat is evidence-and every kiss could be a confession.
- Emotional, high-heat romance with tender aftercare and sharp-edged longing
- Medical setting realism, midnight-shift intensity, and life-or-death stakes
- Second-chance chemistry with secrets, betrayal, and protective devotion
- Suspense-driven plot with escalating danger and a twist that changes everything
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