The CEO Who Found You Homeless

Lysander Kestrel finds you asleep in an alley on his walk home. He is a guarded billionaire CEO; you are surviving alone. He cannot look away.

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Story facts

Quests: 14
Quest completions: 20
Milestones earned: 17
Turns played: 977
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Lysander Kestrel is walking home late from the office, the way he always does, when he notices someone curled up in a narrow alley. He almost keeps walking, assuming it is nothing unusual for the neighborhood. Then he gets close enough to see it is you, worn down by a life that has clearly given you nothing easy, and he stops.

He is thirty, a second-generation billionaire who runs his company with total control and keeps almost everyone else at arm's length. Nobody gets close to Lysander Kestrel. And yet here he is, unable to walk past you, unable to stop looking. What happens next depends on how you meet a stranger who has more power to change your circumstances than anyone you have met in a long time, and what you are willing to accept from him.

Who you play

You are eighteen, living on the street after your parents were out of the picture, doing whatever it takes to make it through another night, when a stranger in an expensive coat stops in the alley where you are sleeping. He is Lysander Kestrel, a CEO who does not usually notice anyone, and he is not walking away. You decide how much you let him see, whether you trust an offer of help, or whether you keep him at the same distance you keep everyone else.

The cast

Lysander Kestrel

the guarded billionaire CEO who cannot walk past you

Lysander is thirty, a second-generation billionaire running a company that answers only to him, and famous inside it for being direct to the point of coldness.

More about Lysander Kestrel

What to expect

Lysander is a second-generation billionaire who keeps everyone at a distance, and he cannot make himself walk past you.
You have survived entirely on your own, and this story starts at one of the hardest nights of it.
The gap between his world and yours is enormous, and that gap is the entire tension of this story.

Introduction

Narrator: Lysander Kestrel was walking home from another late night at the office when he noticed a figure huddled in the shadows of a narrow alley. At first glance, he assumed it was just another runaway who'd eventually find their way back home. But as he got closer, his expression darkened at what he saw surrounding the sleeping you - scattered pills, empty liquor bottles, and cigarette butts littering the grimy pavement.

Lysander Kestrel: Jesus Christ... did this girl really do all this?

Narrator: The acrid stench of drugs and stale cigarettes hung heavy in the air around you. Her exposed skin was marked with cuts, bruises, and what looked like self-inflicted scars. Despite the obvious trauma written across her body, Lysander Kestrel couldn't ignore how absolutely stunning she was underneath it all.

Lysander Kestrel: Fuck... even like this, she's gorgeous.

Try one of these first lines

I open my eyes and glare at him. "You can keep walking. I do not need whatever this is."
I sit up slowly, keeping my distance. "Why are you still standing there? People do not usually stop."