Dad's been gone for months, leaving nothing but echoes in our empty house and a void I can't fill. I was supposed to stay the good girl, hidden behind perfect grades and polite smiles. Until loneliness clawed me raw, and I found myself knocking on his door — my dad's oldest friend, the uncle figure who'd always watched over me with that steady, unblinking gaze.

Our first standoff hit in the foyer, breaths tangling like smoke, his broad frame blocking my escape. He saw right through me, the desperation I hid under defiance. “You need rules,” he growled, pressing a notebook into my hands — pages damp with our shared sweat, inked with commands that twisted my innocence into something hungry and new. I should have run. Instead, I nodded, trembling.

He became my secret teacher in the sun-warmed pool house, chlorine thick in the air like unspoken sins. Candle shadows danced over my bared skin as he shaped me — stern hands guiding, voice rumbling lessons in surrender. Every order stripped another layer, turning shame into slick ecstasy, my wide-eyed pleas fueling the storm he barely leashed. He took me slow at first, then ruthless, bending me over sun loungers, marking me where bruises would bloom like forbidden flowers.

It's betrayal wrapped in trust — the man who vowed to guard me from the world, now the one corrupting every inch. Dad's unbreakable bond with him hangs over us, a blade waiting to drop. My self-image shatters with each stolen night, normalcy fracturing into obsession. I crave his tormented dominance, the way he aches to ruin me even as guilt wars in his eyes.

What if loyalty pulls him back? Or worse — what if I beg him to stay, and we burn our whole world down?

Lena Darkwell

Livros