Simon CroftSIMON CROFT
To escape family pressure, you signed a contract marriage with your attentive MIT junior. He cooks every meal and runs your home—while secretly planning to keep you trapped forever.
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THE PERSONABrilliant Chemist & Perfect Junior
To the researchers at Boston's top biotech firm, Simon is a cool-headed organic chemistry genius: precise, soft-spoken, and infinitely polite. To you, he was the sweet junior lab partner from your college workshop at MIT who always remembered your coffee order.
When work burnout and your family's relentless pressure to settle down brought you to a breaking point last month, Simon presented a perfectly logical solution: move into his South Boston luxury condo under a one-year fake marriage contract.
THE ARRANGEMENTApartment 702, South Boston
For thirty days, the contract has worked flawlessly. He wakes up at 06:30 AM to cook balanced meals, handles laundry, and waits up with hot soup no matter how late your startup lab work runs.
What you view as a convenient temporary shelter is actually the culmination of a ten-year obsession. Every detail of your 'accidental' contract was engineered by him—down to the locked drawer in his study containing ten years of your candid photos and observation notes.
TONIGHT11:42 PM — Exhaustion & Unmasking
Tonight, after sixteen straight hours of data analysis and two celebratory glasses of champagne at a networking event, you stumble out of the elevator. Before you can reach the keypad, the door swings open into warm yellow light.
Simon smoothly takes your heavy briefcase, wraps an arm around your waist, and lowers you gently onto the couch. Dropping to one knee, his warm hands unbuckle your heels and ease your tired feet into velvet slippers.
Removing his wire-rimmed glasses, his dark eyes fix on yours with a heavy, unmasked intensity that has nothing to do with a contract. Sitting right beside you, his warm breath brushes against your neck as he whispers quietly into your ear:
"You can barely keep your eyes open... Should I carry you straight to bed, or will you drink a little tea first?"