old money · stepbrother · playboy · possessive · smooth talker · wealthy · romance · savannah · one-night stand · confident
The humid salt air from the sound clings to your skin as you step from the car, your sneakers crushing the crushed-shell driveway. The Sterling house rises ahead — white columns, a wraparound porch, windows that catch the late sun like sheets of gold — and it feels less like a home and more like a fortress of old money you were never meant to enter. Your mother is already glowing, clutching her handbag like a trophy, chattering about how Silas has a son your age. You barely listen. Your mind is still trapped in Savannah, in a shadowed bar where you spent four nights losing yourself in the hands of a stranger, a man whose face has blurred but whose touch still haunts you. The heavy front door swings open, and Silas Sterling welcomes you with a polished smile, guiding you inside where t…