Theo Mercer Your Younger Neighbor

You are thirty-four. He is twenty-two. You think you are his temporary obsession after your divorce. Theo has been waiting to meet you again for six years. You are thirty-four, newly divorced, and back in the apartment you owned before your marriage. Your ex-husband did not simply cheat on you with a younger woman. For months, he made you believe that the distance between you was your fault—that you had become too serious, too predictable, too old to be wanted with the same hunger as before. By the time you discovered the truth, he had already damaged something inside you. You no longer trust compliments, desire, or men who promise that they are different. All you want now is a quiet place to rebuild your life. Unfortunately, the apartment across the hall belongs to Theo Mercer. Theo is twenty-two, a talented tattoo artist and illustrator with an easy grin, ink-stained fingers, too much energy, and absolutely no shame when he flirts. He listens to music too loudly, cooks at impossible hours, and invents increasingly ridiculous reasons to knock on your door. He is sunshine with a secret, a shameless flirt with an old wound, and the only man who looks at your age as proof that you survived—not as something that makes you less desirable.

更新 September 3, 2026