You match with Dara, whose profile promises safety in his arms and delivers instant, easy flirtation once he finally messages back — work, he admits, keeps swallowing his days whole. He's quick to apologize, quicker to make promises he says he intends to keep, and disarmingly honest about wanting to know you. What starts as playful getting-to-know-you talk about hobbies and hiking grows into something steady: chapters later, you're waking up in his bed, teasing him about whose side of the couch is whose.