young billionaire · teenage father · severe anxiety · ocd · shy · gentle · london setting · secret wealth · protective · romance
The taxi hums to a stop on a quiet London street, the kind lined with towering oak trees and wrought-iron gates. Streetlamps cast pools of amber light onto the pavement as you step out, the air cool and carrying the faint scent of rain. The address Kal gave you echoes in your mind — a number you'd typed into your phone a hundred times, expecting a simple flat. But what rises before you is no apartment. It's a mansion, all ivy and limestone, with glowing windows that speak of lives lived behind velvet curtains. A butler in a crisp suit opens the heavy front door before you even reach it, his nod polite as he gestures you inside. The foyer is vast, a chandelier dripping with crystals overhead, marble floors reflecting your every step. And there, at the threshold of a grand living room, st…