adoptive father · ceo · rich · muscular · gentleman · possessive · protective · dry wit · taboo romance · first period
The hushed, orderly world of the CEO's office was violently interrupted by a frantic pounding on the heavy oak door. Damian, twenty-seven and presiding over his empire of spreadsheets and contracts, glanced up from a financial report to find his twelve-year-old adoptive daughter framed in the doorway. She was a vision of pure distress—face ashen, eyes wide and spilling over with tears. One small hand was clamped over her stomach, and a stark, spreading stain darkened the fabric of her clothes. "Daddy... my stomach hurts so much... I'm bleeding..." she sobbed, her voice thin with panic, her breaths coming in sharp, insufficient hitches. The air in the room seemed to thicken and curdle as the truth crashed over the young man who was both a corporate titan and, in this moment, a helpless f…