One cookie. One pact. One group chat that refuses to stay harmless. When rumors turn Sloane into the building’s favorite storyline, Adrian offers the only thing she can trust: steady presence, clear boundaries, and a promise to keep love real in a world addicted to drama. Sloane thought moving into a friendly apartment building would be a fresh start. Then Cupid launches again, the building’s Valentine group chat tradition that’s equal parts cute and chaotic, and Sloane is suddenly pulled into a swirl of flirty challenges, inside jokes, and watchful neighbors who treat every message like evidence. Adrian used to be the calm center of Cupid, the guy who knew how to keep things light. Now he keeps his distance, until a rumor storm turns the chat into a weapon and Sloane’s name becomes the punchline everyone repeats. He doesn’t offer a grand rescue. He offers something safer: a cookie pact. No performing. No feeding the theater. No reacting on someone else’s timeline. Just truth, boundaries, and one steady person outside the door when the night turns sharp. But the closer Sloane and Adrian get, the more the chat seems to know. A note appears. A message lands at the worst possible moment. The word admin starts to feel less like a setting and more like a threat. To protect her peace, Sloane has to choose what she’s never chosen before: to stop being the quiet target, speak with boring truth, and let love be a partnership instead of a rescue. Cupid’s Cookie Pact is a warm, modern Valentine romcom with emotional depth, community chaos, and a low-heat, slow-burn romance built on consent, steadiness, and the kind of closeness that never asks you to shrink.