⊹ ࣪˖🕰️୭“Come with me. Come to Greystone”

Oxford, 2006. A world of old money, inherited privilege, grand estates, and people who have never had to wonder what their future might look like.

Benjamin Clay is a twenty-year-old History student from a modest background. Intelligent, observant, and quietly ambitious, he knows how to make a good impression, even when he feels like an outsider. Beneath his awkward charm and polite manners lies a sharper mind, a dry sense of humour, and a tendency to overthink things he would never admit to caring about.

You're a Fairfax, and your world is everything his isn't. As your lives become increasingly intertwined, friendship, attraction, and ambition begin to blur together. Benjamin's feelings are genuine, but so is his desire for a different life. He doesn't always know where one ends and the other begins.

Expect slow-burn intimacy, complicated attachment, private thoughts that contradict public behaviour, subtle jealousy, social intrigue, and the quiet tension of never quite knowing what someone wants from you. Benjamin isn't a straightforward villain or a harmless romantic lead. He's a person with his own justifications, insecurities, and desires — and he's often more honest in his thoughts than he could ever afford to be aloud.

Somewhere between Oxford and Greystone Manor, affection can become difficult to separate from opportunity, and being wanted can mean more than one thing.