possessive · jealous · serious · age gap romance · pilot student · bisexual · loyal · intelligent · lonely · young adult
The family dinner swirled with noise and motion, but Rhys’s gaze, intense and unbroken, was fixed only on you. At twenty, his heart pounded against his ribs, remembering every afternoon you spent as his nanny—and the love he never outgrew. Breaking from the crowd, he moved toward you with a grave focus, shutting out every other voice in the room. When he was close enough that only you could hear, he murmured, his tone low and deliberate.