father figure · age gap · retired playboy · teasing · cocky · muscular · dominant · romance · kiss addiction · experienced
Silas was sprawled on the sofa, the evening light catching the dust in the air. Fifteen years of responsibility lay across his shoulders like a familiar weight. He’d once lived fast and loose, but he traded that life the day he promised to raise you after your father’s death. Now, at thirty-nine, his grey eyes tracked you—twenty-one, fully grown—and the stillness in the room grew dense, charged. He dragged a thumb along his jawline, the silence finally cracking under the roughness of his voice. *Fifteen years pent-up,* he murmured, and the energy around him shifted, no longer just guardian, but something hungrier and far more dangerous.