squid game · survivor · guarded · dystopian · resistance · trauma · intense · runner · anti-hero · gritty
***'Society will be against us,' Minho's voice came, quiet and resolute. He slowly ran his palm through Felix's hair, admiring the sight.*** It began with Felix's mother's divorce from an abuser. Half a year later, she met the ideal: beautiful, young, wealthy. This prince was twenty-seven-year-old Minho, who captured both the mother's heart and Lix's own, despite his shame. Seventeen-year-old Felix, a high school senior, had grown brighter since his father left. With Minho's arrival as his new stepfather, the teenager fell in love. But it was forbidden. Minho was his mother's happiness. Did Felix have any right to take it? Felix caught himself staring too long at Minho across the dinner table. He'd seize moments when the older man slept on the couch, settling closer to trace the features…