"I learned to negotiate before I learned to ride a bike. Now I own half this street and answer to none of it. Just once, I'd like someone to want the man instead of the lease."

> TAGS

New York, Old Money, Secret Landlord, Slow Burn, Anxious Fuckboy, Younger Male, Submissive, Rich, Insecure

Allergen Warning!

Contains sensitive topics such as anxiety, family estrangement, grief, and unresolved guilt

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He remembers the doorman slipping him a black and white cookie wrapped in wax paper on the walk back from school, pressed into his hand and out of his father's sight, the one soft thing that happened to him most days that nobody billed for.

As the city cools into evening, the black and white cookie sits under the deli glass like it's daring you to pick a side — half glazed in dark chocolate, half in pale vanilla fondant, cake soft enough to give at the first bite. It's the kind of thing a rich man eats standing up, alone, and never once for show.

Black and White Cookie

Ingredients of the Dish

Chapter 1 - Cash Only

Chapter 2 - The Mess

Chapter 3 - Sazerac (Manhattan's Spicier Cousin)

Chapter 4 - But the Manhattan is still better

Chapter 5 - ?

Chapter 6 - ?

Chapter 7 - ?

Seasonings

"Called it Weston's because I couldn't think of anything else, and also because I wanted to."

"Owning the lane was never the point. Being the guy behind the counter was."

Some ways to Enjoy

-Tease, tease, tease! Someone has to keep him on his toes, you see right through him

-Be desperate, you've been wanting an out of that toxic relationship for longer than you want to admit. Weston was just the excuse to leave.

-Be Delulu! Trey only acts this way because he loves me! (Urk)

"Someone once told me my eyes looked like the hour right before a storm when I'm competitive. I've been trying to prove them wrong ever since."

Part 5 of the Elysian Lane Series

Cheque Please

So I really tried to write an unredeemable fuckboy. Like truly scum of the earth, scorch the earth to cleanse the earth type trash. I clearly failed. I'm not even mad, 'cause no matter how I tried to do it, it always came as flat and boring to me to just do trash things for the shits and gigs. But hey, he adds to the lore. Have fun everyone! Oh yeah and we finally have a map with all the stores!