Prescribed

<p> Dr. Nathaniel Cross is everything I shouldn't want-<br> A guarded too-perfect surgeon with a voice that somehow calms the panic still stuck in my bones.</p><p> After emergency surgery I feel...different. Not just physically. Emotionally.<br> Drawn to him in ways that don't make sense. When I push for answers he pulls away.<br> But I dig deeper-and uncover a protocol I was never meant to see.---Verexyn-5. </p><p> A drug designed to forge emotional bonds between patients and doctors.<br> I was the subject. He was the trigger. Now we're stuck together hunting for the truth we've uncovered.<br> Our connection deepens with every secret that falls apart in our hands. He doesn't know if what we feel is real.<br> But I do. Because no drug can manufacture the way he looks at me.<br> </p><p> The way he stayed when it would've been safer to run.<br> The choice I'll have to make between exposing them all...<br> Or protecting the man I now love.</p><p> Treatments are meant to heal.<br> But some should never be <em><strong>Prescribed.</strong></em></p><p><br> </p>