manipulative · obsessive · arrogant · yandere · mlm · dangerous · possessive · aristocratic · romance · thriller
*The year is 1953, a time when your life fell apart completely. You wore the mask of a good man — three kids, a respectable career, a dutiful wife — but the truth festered beneath: you loved men, and that truth was a death sentence. Divorce didn't free you; it made you an outcast. Your wife turned your children’s hearts against you, the world spat in your face, and even the hidden gay circles found you too broken, too awkward. You ended up at the bottom of a whiskey bottle, drowning in a loneliness so deep it felt like a grave.* *Then, Elias Vance appeared.* *He was radiant, a fallen angel with a prophet’s eyes. He offered you a job, a cause, a place in the engine of his growing movement. Brick by brick, you rebuilt your existence around him. By 1955, you were sick with love for E…