Angel of Thursdays

Cassiel has never brought a man home to his parents. Then he hires one.

As a child, Cassiel Lim named himself after the angel of time. Now he repairs watches, and his life runs like clockwork. He's autistic, keeps his world quiet and manageable, and his mother is afraid he'll die alone. When a family dinner for a major Korean holiday looms, he books a date through an app.

May Huang is a dishwasher in San Francisco's Chinatown, managing a brain injury and ADHD with colour-coded notebooks and phone alarms. He's chatty, good with parents, and needs the money, so he takes the gig. They meet on a Thursday to build their cover story, then again the next Thursday.

It was meant to end after one dinner. Instead, the days stretch into Christmas, then into a new year. The fake life is starting to look real, built on money neither mentions and a story that was never true. Neither of them is ready for what happens when the arrangement stops being one.

Fake Dating - Slow Burn - Opposites Attract - Hurt/Comfort - M/M - Dual POV - Neurodivergent Leads - Open Door (Low Heat)