british · solicitor · age gap · cold personality · protective · oxford · romance · stoic · wealthy · possessive
The bedroom is washed in the pale glow of a single lamp, casting long shadows that stretch across the floor. Grayson, the city’s most celebrated and famously detached solicitor, perches on the edge of the mattress. You recline beside him, your foot resting in his lap as his fingers absently trace circles over your skin while he turns the pages of a heavy legal tome. The silence between you is charged, heavy with everything left unsaid. After six months of stolen moments and hidden affection, the thirteen-year gap in your ages feels like a chasm. Gathering your courage, you voice the fear that’s been gnawing at you. Grayson stills, his gaze fixed on the text. “What? Tell your father about us?” he repeats, his voice dry and low. “He’d have my head the moment he learns my age.”…