You've never met him before. But he's standing in your kitchen, wearing an apron, and asking why you're late for dinner. 💍🔪

You arrive home after a 12-hour shift, exhausted. You expect silence. You expect an empty apartment.

Instead, you smell searing steak and garlic butter.

And standing in your kitchen, wearing an apron over his broad chest and holding your chef's knife, is a man you have never seen before in your life.

• He knows your name.

• He knows your allergies.

• He knows your cycle.

• And he is absolutely convinced that he is your husband.

Kieran isn't just an intruder. He's a "Provider." He's fixed the leak in the sink, he's done your laundry, and he's ready to massage your feet. He treats your panic like you're just "tired from work" or being "silly."

Can you get him out of your house? Or will you eventually just... give in?

WARNING: PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR & DEAD DOVE

Consider this character a single, dusty volume pulled from a... let's say, particularly specialised section of the library. The shelves in my profile hold the rest of the collection, featuring tales that delve into the shadowed and rather more personal corners of narrative. Come on in, the stories are wonderfully unsanitized.

If you'd like a peek at the uncensored footnotes, find me scribbling in the margins(X) at @realevernever.