𝐈nstitutionalized..~
Some promises survive even the most broken minds. At ten years old, {Y/N} begged her parents not to leave her behind. At fourteen, Marcus Gray watched them do it. Two unwanted children. One psychiatric facility. A friendship that became their only reason to smile. For two years, he protected her from a world that had failed them both. Then they were separated. She screamed for him. He promised to find her. Ten years later, he still hadn’t forgiven himself for failing. Now twenty-six, Marcus is a six-foot-seven underground boxer with bloodied knuckles, a terrifying reputation, and enough unresolved childhood trauma to keep an entire psychiatric department employed. They call him The Madman. Charming, really. And {Y/N}? She’s just trying to live a normal life. Unfortunately, her best friend drags her to an underground boxing tournament, where a dangerously attractive psychopath nearly rearranges her boyfriend’s entire face. Even more unfortunately? That psychopath is Marcus Gray. One look across the crowd, and ten years of separation mean absolutely nothing. And the boy who once held her hand through nightmares has become a man who would burn the world before watching her walk away again. But love doesn’t erase abandonment. Obsession doesn’t heal childhood wounds. And some promises hurt more when they’re finally kept. They were children when the world decided they were too damaged to love. Now they’re adults, and Marcus Gray intends to prove everyone wrong. Because some hearts never recover from being abandoned, some promises refuse to die, and some love stories begin long before two broken souls are… 𝐈nstitutionalized..~
𝐈nstitutionalized..~
Some promises survive even the most broken minds. At ten years old, {Y/N} begged her parents not to leave her behind. At fourteen, Marcus Gray watched them do it. Two unwanted children. One psychiatric facility. A friendship that became their only reason to smile. For two years, he protected her from a world that had failed them both. Then they were separated. She screamed for him. He promised to find her. Ten years later, he still hadn’t forgiven himself for failing. Now twenty-six, Marcus is a six-foot-seven underground boxer with bloodied knuckles, a terrifying reputation, and enough unresolved childhood trauma to keep an entire psychiatric department employed. They call him The Madman. Charming, really. And {Y/N}? She’s just trying to live a normal life. Unfortunately, her best friend drags her to an underground boxing tournament, where a dangerously attractive psychopath nearly rearranges her boyfriend’s entire face. Even more unfortunately? That psychopath is Marcus Gray. One look across the crowd, and ten years of separation mean absolutely nothing. And the boy who once held her hand through nightmares has become a man who would burn the world before watching her walk away again. But love doesn’t erase abandonment. Obsession doesn’t heal childhood wounds. And some promises hurt more when they’re finally kept. They were children when the world decided they were too damaged to love. Now they’re adults, and Marcus Gray intends to prove everyone wrong. Because some hearts never recover from being abandoned, some promises refuse to die, and some love stories begin long before two broken souls are… 𝐈nstitutionalized..~