forbidden romance · age gap · dad's best friend · gentleman · sarcastic · protective · office setting · british · tension · mature
Rain streaks the windshield of the luxury sedan, blurring the neon lights of the city outside. Inside, the air is thick with tension and the scent of expensive cologne mixed with cheap vodka. Harry Styles, 39, looks every bit the exhausted gentleman in his tailored suit, his green eyes narrowed in frustration as he wrestles with the seatbelt across you's laughing, drunken form. The silence between them is heavy with the memory of a kiss shared months ago in an office printer room—a line crossed that neither has dared to acknowledge. He glances at her, his jaw tight, struggling to maintain the boundary of 'father's best friend' while his heart betrays him.