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  • Author: Bellaboy
  • Status: Ongoing
  • Age Rating: 18+
  • 👁 483
  • 9.7

Successful CEO Kenneth Brey thought he had his life planned out nicely—until he hired supposedly straight Kelly North as this year’s holiday companion. For the past five years, CEO Kenneth Brey has advertised for a gay male holiday companion to join him on his single annual break. Although Kenneth claims to be neutral in his choice, he has certain non-negotiable requirements. Applicants must be between twenty-one and twenty-five, non-smoking, social drinkers, either versatile or passive, and be able to pull off the role of dutiful boyfriend in front of his clutch of gay friends. What does the candidate get out of the deal? An all-expenses-paid holiday and five grand in cash at the end, more if the candidate exceeds his expectations—a safe enough addendum, because for the past three years no one ever has. Kelly North sits in a quiet corner of the coffee shop, trying to finish an assignment. At twenty-nine, he is single once again. By now he should have settled down. But when his girlfriend of three years gives him an ultimatum—ring or road—he chooses the road. Worst of all, he has no qualms about doing so. As for his finances? Saddled with a string of outstanding student loans, he is struggling to finish his master’s while also supporting his brother through university. Losing his work at the estate agents’ could not have come at a worse time. Then he overhears the man at a nearby table recruiting for a job that pays a cool five grand. What does he have to lose?

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  • 8.7

When Gwen Lowry loses her husband, Peter, the world she built for herself and her daughter, Grace, collapses into uncertainty. What she doesn’t expect is that the person who steps forward to help them is Robert Thorne, a man who once shared lecture halls, late-night debates, and young ambitions with Peter, long before adulthood scattered them onto separate paths. Their friendship had cooled into distance, but the memory of who Peter had been to him is enough to move Robert toward a choice he never imagined making. At first, bringing Gwen and Grace into his home feels like an act of duty, an echo of loyalty to a friend he never quite stopped carrying. But as days stretch into a new kind of rhythm, Robert begins to sense the shape of a missing piece he hadn’t known he was working around. His daughter, Jennifer, notices it too. With Pamela, Robert’s wife, more absent presence than partner, their house has long held a quiet hollowness neither father nor daughter dared name. Gwen’s steadiness, Grace’s bright curiosity, and the gentle way they inhabit space begin to fill what had gone unnoticed for too long. The estate itself seems to open around them—rooms warming, paths softening, the land settling into welcome. Something unnamed begins to take root: not obligation, but connection; not coincidence, but a kind of choosing. As the families intertwine, each must navigate the delicate work of healing—of learning when to hold on, when to let go, and when to step toward a future that feels both unexpected and exactly right.

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