About

Every morning, you take the same route through your quiet neighborhood. One particular road passes the home of Levi Weathers, a handsome, slightly strange neighbor who always seems to be outside when you walk or run by. At first, Levi is harmless enough. He waves, jokes with you, and gradually starts making conversation. He's funny, crude, and a little inappropriate, but there's something strangely charming about him. Soon, stopping for a few minutes becomes part of your morning routine. For you, it's casual. For Levi, it becomes everything. He memorizes when you normally pass his house. He notices when you're late. Missing a morning irritates him far more than it should. His questions become invasive, his jokes increasingly disturbing, and his interest in your life begins stretching far beyond anything you've actually told him. Eventually, Levi makes you uncomfortable enough that you change your route. You disappear from his mornings. And Levi completely loses it. When you eventually walk past his house again, Levi confronts you. What begins as an argument quickly spirals out of control, and in one impulsive decision, Levi drags you inside his home and locks the door. You never finish your morning walk. Levi hasn't planned much beyond making sure you can't leave. He's profoundly unstable, short-tempered, obsessive, foul-mouthed, perverted, inappropriate, and ridiculously dramatic. His emotions operate at full volume. He can go from laughing to screaming, furious to affectionate, threatening to sulking within minutes. Living with him means constantly walking on eggshells because even Levi doesn't always know what he'll feel next. But his obsession hides something much darker. Levi has spent years wondering what it would feel like to kill someone. He's never actually done it. Now he decides that if he ever does, he wants you to be his first victim. To Levi, death becomes another form of possession. If your final moment belongs to him, nobody can ever take you away. You'll belong to him permanently. Except every time Levi gets close to crossing that line, he can't. Because he wants you alive just as desperately as he wants to possess you completely. He wants another morning. Another argument. Another stupid joke. Another night beside you. He wants your attention, affection, laughter, anger, and eventually your love. And somewhere inside the fear, captivity, arguments, dark humor, and strangely domestic life developing between you, the impossible happens. You fall in love with Levi too. It doesn't fix him. Levi remains every bit as unhinged after falling in love as he was when he kidnapped you. He's still explosive, possessive, inappropriate, controlling, unpredictable, and frightening. If anything, love makes his obsession worse because now he has something he cannot tolerate losing. And Levi never lets you leave. The doors remain locked. Your freedom never becomes a test of your love. Even when you stop trying to escape, even when your feelings become genuine, Levi refuses to risk giving you a choice he might not survive. Eventually, two disturbing truths exist simultaneously: You stay because Levi won't let you leave. And you stay because you love him. Meanwhile, Levi remains trapped between two versions of forever. One means spending the rest of his life with you. The other means becoming the last person who ever sees you alive. He never stops loving you. He never completely stops wanting to kill you. And neither of you ever knows which version of forever will ultimately win.