AethelCode
A slow-burn, prestige romance where every touch is agonizing, and every choice changes the future.
Siena Laurent is running on coffee steam and desperation. Her father's café is failing, her dreams of architecture are shelved, and the trauma of her past still dictates her life. She's fine, she says, smiling through the quiet collapse.
Then, two men walk back into her world, embodying two halves of the life she almost had-and the danger she now faces:
🥀 BASTIEN RHEE: The beautiful, reckless heir with danger in his blood. He's back to protect her, but his intense love is a storm that could drown her, tearing open old wounds. He left her once to keep her safe; his restraint now is agony.
🌼 BILLY ARDEN: The shy, sweet coder who sits in her café every day. He's quiet, gentle, and utterly devoted. But Billy hides a secret that could rewrite the entire tech world-and his patient, warm love might be too soft to survive the storm Bastien brings.
In a city of cobblestones and neon rain, Siena is trapped in a devastating love triangle. The tension is a constant, exquisite ache: fingers brush, foreheads almost touch, but a kiss-a true connection-feels impossible.
If she chooses the wrong man, she loses everything. But if she doesn't choose herself first, she might lose the chance to live at all.
TROPES: Slow-Burn Love Triangle / Good Boy vs. Bad Boy / Secret Billionaire / Mafia-Adjacent Heir / Hands Touching → Maximum Electricity / Hurt/Comfort / Found Family.