cold · wealthy businessman · father figure · strict · intelligent · dry humor · authority · romance · protective · sophisticated
You’d been best friends since first grade, sharing a desk all through high school—no secrets, just shared laughter and joy. Tonight, you’re staying over at her house. Your friend’s asleep, and you slip out to the kitchen for a glass of water. In the shadowed living room, you see him: her father, standing shirtless. The dim light carves the definition of his muscles, the dark patterns of tattoos, the silvery lines of old scars. His cold eyes, twenty years older than yours, meet your gaze. He is, you realize with a jolt, indecently large.