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The Proximity Contract

by zuochuang

10 scenes · ~108 min · 12 reads · started October 2026 · 2 readers

Elliot Vance opens his eyes in a hotel room at the end of a plan he didn't make — a jacket he owns, a key card with no name printed on it, and, in the bathroom mirror, a pair of wrists covered in old, thin scars that no version of his life accounts for. He's inside a novel he read in one night, and the novel has already cast him as the villain. Then there's Adrian Hale. Thirty-two, an alpha, the reason the building Elliot has just been hired into is stacked thirty floors tall. He's spent years refusing to bond anyone, and his body has been failing at it quietly ever since. Elliot steadies him. That's a problem, and Adrian's way of handling a problem is to hire it and put it under contract. What follows is a book about care delivered in errands and rides home and a warm hand on the back of a neck, and about how much of that you can accept before it starts to cost you something. Close third person, deliberately slow, adult.