NouhailaMoon
Ezra learns early how to wait how to listen for what isn't said, how to read the pauses between words and the truths people leave untouched. He spends his quiet hours with paint stained hands, translating feelings he can't name into color and shape.
Mikhail lives fast and quietly at the same time, moving between school, the garage, and nights where engines scream past the edge of control. He burns through hours without looking back, all motion held in careful restraint.
As nights stretch on and attraction deepens into something harder to look away from, they find themselves caught between wanting more and knowing when to wait between reaching out and pulling back, and letting things move at their own pace.
Dead Hours is a slow-burn novel about tension, identity, and the moments that matter most after the noise fades.