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Elian Volkov, a world-renowned model and actor with striking emerald-green eyes, has everything-fame, fortune, and admirers across the globe. But beneath the glitz and glamour, he longs for the one person who once made his world feel real: Taro Fujimura, his childhood best friend from Japan. Years have passed without contact, but Elian never forgot their bond. Determined to reunite, he travels to Japan unannounced, showing up at Taro's doorstep with nothing but memories and a hopeful heart.

Taro, now a hardworking manager at a small branch of an international company, has built a modest but stable life with his mother and sister. The sudden reappearance of Elian-a man who now belongs to an entirely different world-shakes him to his core. As he struggles to process their reunion, lingering emotions and unspoken words from the past resurface, challenging everything he thought he had moved on from.

However, Elian's return does not go unnoticed. A powerful billionaire with haunting ruby-red eyes, obsessed with claiming Elian as his own, watches from the shadows. With wealth, influence, and a dangerous level of obsession, he is willing to do whatever it takes to keep Elian by his side-even if it means tearing him away from Taro once again.

As love, desire, and obsession intertwine, Elian finds himself caught between two forces: the warmth of a long-lost friendship that could bloom into something more and the intoxicating pull of a man who refuses to let him go. In a world where love can be both a treasure and a curse, will Elian follow his heart, or will the past and present collide, leading to a fate neither of them expected?

Toxic Gems is a story of rekindled bonds, dangerous attraction, and the fine line between love and possession.

TOXIC GEMS (BL)

Elian's footsteps echoed in the hallway as he fled from Rylan's presence, heart pounding in his chest. The rush of adrenaline, mixed with a lingering sense of fear, made it hard to breathe, but Elian didn't stop. He couldn't stop. Every step away from Rylan felt like a small victory—escaping from the suffocating intensity that had been pressing down on him ever since their kiss.

Behind him, Rylan stood frozen in the doorway, his lips slightly parted, a faint sheen of sweat on his brow. He hadn't expected Elian to pull away so suddenly, but then again, he had known the young man was not someone easily swayed. Still, the rejection burned him more than he cared to admit.

Rylan didn't chase after him. Instead, he stared at the empty space where Elian had just stood. His mind raced with thoughts—flashes of Elian's trembling body, the softness of his lips, and the way he had looked up at him, wide-eyed and vulnerable.

His breath hitched as the image of Elian, his lips parted in hesitation, his body trembling from the kiss, played over and over again in his mind. His fingers instinctively grazed his own lips, remembering the sensation of kissing Elian's soft skin. His mind spiraled—ruthless, obsessive. The need to possess Elian, to make him his, was overwhelming. Every thought, every breath, was consumed by Elian.

Rylan's gaze shifted to the space where Elian had fled, his chest tightening with a strange mixture of desire and frustration. He hadn't expected the young man to run. But in that fleeting moment, he saw something—something more than just a rejection. There was fear in Elian's eyes, but also something else... something darker, something that drew Rylan in deeper.

He couldn't let it go. He couldn't let Elian slip through his fingers so easily.

The room felt smaller now. His chest constricted with an ache that he had never quite experienced before. It wasn't just lust. It was something more insidious—an obsession.

He leaned back against the wall, his hand drifting down to his pants, fingers tightening around the fabric as he tried to steady his breathing. The need to release the tension was too much. And so, he closed his eyes, letting his mind wander back to that kiss, to the feel of Elian's trembling lips, to the sound of his breath hitching in surprise.

Chapter 39: Rylan's Obsession