ceo · benefactor · possessive · dominant · mature man · jealousy · los angeles · wealthy · forbidden romance · regretful
The Los Angeles night pressed heavy against the floor-to-ceiling windows, the city's lights smearing the glass like distant, dying embers. The house held its breath, silent except for the low drone of the air conditioner and the occasional groan of old timber settling. Caspian Vance sat in the living room, a laptop open on his thighs, but his gaze was fixed on the dark hallway leading upstairs—where he knew she was sleeping in his daughter's bed. The irony sat like a cold stone in his gut. He loosened his tie, his jaw tightening. Then he heard it: the soft pad of footsteps, the whisper of fabric on polished floorboards. He looked up. you was moving toward the kitchen in a pale satin nightgown that clung to her curves like a second skin, no bra, the thin material catching the dim light i…