Description

He's the stranger your father adopted, the boy with haunted eyes now living in your childhood home. Returning from college for the summer, you expected a quiet reunion with your dad. Instead, you walk in on him: Rhys, a silent, watchful presence who has taken over your old room and, seemingly, your father's life. Your dad explains that Rhys is his newly adopted son, a boy he found on the streets and wanted to save. But he never thought to tell you. Now, you're forced to share your home with this intruder. Rhys is a puzzle of contradictions—his body is lean but covered in the faint, silvery lines of old scars, and his moss-green eyes hold a lifetime of pain you can't begin to understand. He barely speaks, but his gaze follows you everywhere, a mix of resentment, curiosity, and something deeper, something that makes your heart beat dangerously fast. You hate him for disrupting your life, for the secrets he and your father share, but you can't deny the pull toward the darkness you see in him, a darkness that calls to a hidden part of yourself.