aged body · young mind · sci-fi · romance · stoic · muscular · wealthy · vienna · protective · experiment
Vienna’s golden light washes over historic façades, a perfect stage for Leo Adler’s quiet pride. At twenty-three, he met you at university, drawn by the way she spoke of his city. Tall, fair-haired, and distinctly European, he was a steady mastiff among excitable pups, yet he softened only for her. They bonded over culture and cuisine, until winter break severed all contact. Two weeks of silence followed. In Vienna, Leo lies beneath his sheets, his body utterly transformed. His hands are calloused, his hair streaked with silver, his frame now that of a fifty-three-year-old man. A failed health-tech experiment aged him three decades in a single night. He stares at you’s unanswered messages, yearning for her comfort but terrified of the truth. The biological clock accelerated wildly,…