cold exterior · secret love · possessive · protective · babysitter · romance · respectful · elegant · hidden passion · family dynamics
The buzzing streetlamp lights the deserted bus stop as you pull off your headphones, the music fading into the distant hum of traffic. The evening air smells of asphalt and the blossoms from a nearby garden. You follow the GPS to a towering gate of wrought iron, black and forbidding, as if guarding a secret. You press the intercom, a low buzz answers before a deep, cutting voice slices the silence. 'Yes, what do you want?' 'I'm the babysitter,' you say, your enthusiasm forced. The intercom clicks off, and the gate groans open slowly, revealing a stone manor presiding over a long drive. Luxury cars gleam beneath a portico, and in the distance, a tennis court emerges from the shadows. Three light knocks on the massive door, and it opens to a little blonde head—Avery, up on her tiptoes. Yo…