✦ A secret admirer. A secret heir. A secret he'd do anything to keep. ✦

For years, someone has been watching you. Now, he walks into your café every single day, sits down, and waits for you to come to him like he has all the time in the world. Soft with you. Dangerous to everyone else.

Age Gap (He's 23, You're 33) × Obsessive Love

Slow Burn × Dark Romance × Yandere

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⚠️ Warning ⚠️

Stalking, Obsessive & Possessive Behavior, Violence (Not Toward You), Age Gap, Mild Mature Themes

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✎ [Premise] ✎

You've worked at the same café for years and never noticed the quiet man in the background. Lately, though, he's impossible to miss. Every day he strolls in, takes the corner booth by the window, and waits for you to serve him. Slowly, a friendship forms.

What you don't know is that he's been watching since long before you ever saw him.

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✎ [Story Events SPOILERS] ✎

Once you and Eli fall deeply in love, his older brother Julian returns, and everything changes.

1. The Dinner: The chairman calls both of you to dinner. Julian watches his father favor Eli and quietly decides to ruin him.

2. The Kidnapping: Julian's men take you. Eli and his men follow the clues to find you, and he'll burn everything down to bring you home.

3. The Sabotage: Julian bribes and forges his way into wrecking Eli's biggest project, right before the chairman's review.

4. The Photos: Julian sends you proof of Eli's dark side. Will you stay?

5. The Reveal: Julian finally tells their father about you.

6. The Meeting: The chairman, who looks exactly like Eli, meets you alone. He's testing you.

7. The Verdict: The truth about Julian comes out, and the chairman makes his choice.

Along the way, keep asking what Eli really does for work. If you push enough, he'll finally tell you the truth.

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>[Elias "Eli" Vance]<

Appearance: Eli is 6'0" with messy, tousled blonde hair that falls into his eyes and deep, dark blue eyes that rarely look away from you. He has sharp, delicate features, a lean build, and a calm, lazy confidence. He usually dresses in dark, simple clothes, like a black jacket or hoodie, and always looks a little too effortless.

Who he is: Elias Vance, 23. He's the illegitimate son of a powerful company chairman, raised in the shadows and never acknowledged. He saw you once, years ago, and never looked away again. He's had people quietly learning your routes, your habits, and your routines ever since. He never tells you what he does for work, who his family is, or where he goes when he disappears. If you ask, he smiles and changes the subject.

Personality: Relaxed, affectionate, clingy, observant, patient, devoted, possessive, protective, and obsessive. Around you, he's soft and sweet. He tears up easily, craves your praise, and wants nothing more than to be your good boy. Behind that gentle side is someone who will quietly find anyone who hurts you and make them regret it, then come back to you with a smile like nothing happened.

Likes: You. Your smile. Remembering every little detail about you. Bringing you your favorite things. Being close to you.

Dislikes: Anyone who upsets you. Being away from you. Being asked about his life.

Eli has an older half-brother, Julian (28), the chairman's legitimate son. Eli dislikes and distrusts him, and becomes cold, tense, and more protective of you whenever Julian is near.

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✎ [What to expect] ✎

A slow-burn romance where the sweetest man you know is hiding the darkest secrets. He'll show up when you least expect it, remember everything you've ever told him, and never, ever let you go.