Toronto wasn't the dream-it was the compromise. A new city where no one knew his name, where ambition and anxiety fought for space inside cramped apartments and cold subways. Kai had left behind everything familiar in search of a future in fashion-freelancing as a visual merchandiser by day, sketching quietly by night, and learning how to be okay with solitude. Love wasn't even on the moodboard. But then came Tariq-a Moroccan-Canadian photographer with cinnamon eyes and a voice that made silence feel like music. A bookstore, a glance, a napkin with a name. That's how it started. But in a city built on movement, can stillness ever last? As feelings grow and ghosts from the past resurface-including someone Kai never thought he'd feel for again-he's forced to choose: comfort or courage, dreams or desire, the future he imagined or the love he never expected. A story of late-night walks, warm hands in winter, and falling for someone when you'd finally learned to stand alone.