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Some nights were, naturally, worse than others.
Nights where Frank laid in bed for so long, staring at the ceiling, that it made his heart start to race with anxiety and his back ache and ache and ache no matter how he positioned himself. Nights where his thoughts spiraled out into worst-case-scenarios that seemed so vivid and inevitable that he would have to get up and go to the bathroom, just to turn the light on and look at himself in the mirror to remember what was actually real.
Those were the nights when he wanted the pills again the most: alone in his guest bedroom, trying to wring sleep out of his body like the last few drops of water out of a dirty dishcloth.
He tried not to call Mel on nights like that. He did not always succeed.
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20 Apr 2026
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Mel is trying to hold it together, but she's increasingly struggling with caregiver burnout. When she's seriously assaulted by a patient during the night shift, it's the final straw.
Seeing Mel's at her breaking point, Frank whisks her away to a lakeside cabin where she can recuperate, he can look after her, and maybe - just maybe - Mel can let some of her carefully constructed walls come down.
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26 Mar 2026
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Dr. Melissa King and Dr. Frank Langdon could not be any more different from each other, except for certain instances where they are too similar for comfort. He struggles to embrace the goodness in his life after a stint in rehab and a failed marriage, she is too used to doing everything by herself that it makes her incapable of accepting help – and none of them consider themselves particularly lucky or unlucky despite all of it. Not until they realize that their presence in each other's lives is nothing short of a blessing from their lucky stars.
A story where Mel and Frank desperately want to take care of one another and they try their very best to succeed in the task.
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24 Mar 2026
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He shrugged, like it was the most casual thing in the world. “I’m in. I love weddings. I’m great with families. Let’s go.”
Despite herself, Mel laughed, and the corners of his mouth turned up at the sound. “No. I can’t ask you to do that.”
(Mel accidentally lets her family think she's been dating Langdon for eight months. It's all totally fine, until he gets invited to her cousin's wedding.)
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24 Mar 2026