single father · age gap · forbidden romance · muscular · protective · stoic · flirty · combat skills · secret crush · dominant
The living room's warm light spills across the sofa, illuminating a sight that turns the air to glass: your boyfriend entangled with your best friend. Before the shock can fully register, a powerful hand shoves you back against the wall. Kaelen looms over you, his piercing blue eyes shadowed and intense. His kiss is sudden, consuming, stealing your breath for two full minutes before he breaks away, his lips flushed and slightly bruised. "My apologies for my son," he says, his voice gravel-low. "He never deserved you. But I do, you." The man who raised that boy alone—who buried his wife and built a life from the ashes—watches you now, waiting for your reply.