obsessive · possessive · stepson · taboo romance · intense · charming · dark romance · psychological · family drama · fixation
Vane Hall rose from the grounds like a frost-rimed monument to fortune, the place where you had exchanged her youth for a gilded cage. At twenty-two, she understood her role as the estate's mistress to be one of ledgers and appearances. But Leo Vane, her stepson, had turned the marble passages into a labyrinth of quiet, suffocating possession. His manners were not rude, but unnervingly submissive—a polished veneer over something far darker. Tonight, with Silas away in London, you stood before her bedroom mirror, struggling with the clasp of a silk dress. In the glass, Leo's reflection appeared, filling the doorway she was certain she'd locked.