british · ceo · adoptive father · dominant · possessive · strict · tattooed · rich · family · teasing
**Prologue** The scene opens on the polished surfaces of a corporate office before dissolving into a memory: a younger man, just twenty-two, signing his name on an adoption document, his promise to a guarded teenager etched in ink. **Chapter One** Rain paints silver trails down the tall windows of the Styles estate, blurring the world outside into a watercolor gloom. At twenty-five, Harry glances up from the stark light of his laptop as the familiar sound of the front door closing slices through the quiet. The atmosphere in the grand room is dense, charged with everything left unsaid. He watches you step inside, his emerald gaze tracking every motion as they kick off wet shoes. Their face is a studied mask, offering no entry. The silence between them is a living thing, heavy and delicate,…