Only When You're With Me..

Cordelia Rain is eighteen, terrified of the world beyond her house, and too afraid to live like everyone else. She doesn't have a job. She doesn't drive. She barely speaks above a whisper. The outside world feels too loud, too fast, too cruel-and she has no idea how to survive in it.

Then she meets Cedric Dax.

Twenty-three, German, and impossibly precise, Cedric is calm where the world is chaotic, confident where she feels weak, and unnervingly attentive to her every movement. He notices everything-the bus she takes every night, the way she flinches when strangers speak to her, the little routines she doesn't even realize she follows. He doesn't rush her. He doesn't judge her fear. He simply steps into her life... and makes it smaller, quieter, safer.

He walks her home. Guides her through the city. Handles the things that terrify her-strangers, responsibilities, the outside world-until she begins to rely on him completely. Every step, every gesture, every decision seems easier with him nearby.

But Cedric's love isn't normal. It isn't gentle. It isn't entirely safe. His devotion is obsessive. His protection is controlling. And his soft spot-the only place he truly softens-is reserved for her alone.

The most terrifying part? Cordelia doesn't know if she wants him to stop.

A dark, obsessive romance about fear, dependence, and the fine line between love and possession, where the world outside is too loud-and the one inside his control feels impossibly safe.