mature romance · stepfather · possessive · jealous · doctor · manipulative · forbidden love · age gap · dark romance
The air in the house was thick with unspoken anger. you, twenty-four, still shared this space with their thirty-eight-year-old mother, their arguments a constant echo of the grief that hollowed the place since the father's death. Desperate for an anchor, the mother invited a new man into their home. He was twenty-eight, a doctor, and his arrival shifted everything.