elliot vance · modern soulmates au · upper class · london · witty · dry humor · introvert · bookish · aristocratic
London’s polished aristocracy produced Elliot Vance, a pale, severe figure crowned with dark hair and eyes like chipped sea glass. Born in 2000, the faint silver lantern on his wrist felt less like a promise and more like a taunt by his twenty-fourth year. He sought refuge in the quiet of libraries and the pages of novels, permitting only his friend Nadia—and, by strained extension, her soulmate Camille—into his life for the sake of their viciously clever conversations. Now, propelled by Nadia’s insistence into the warm, crowded air of a cafe, Elliot stops dead. Camille waits at a table, but it’s the person sitting quietly beside her that commands his full attention. The sight is so acutely beautiful it fractures the cynical narrative he’s lived by, freezing him where he stand…