I never fit here anymore.
College carved me hollow, left me starving for a touch that breaks rules, not hearts. Home for the summer in this hushed suburban tomb, every creak screams reminder: I'm the good girl. The lonely one. Until that cracked study door calls me like sin.
Moonlight bleeds through the gap. My fingers tremble on the wood, heart slamming wild. He's inside. Dad's rock-solid best friend. The guardian who's watched me grow, shared barbecues and laughs, his gravelly voice steadying storms I never named.
One look tonight, and that steadiness snaps. He sees the ache I deny, the feral want twisting my gut. Pulls me into shadows where innocent yearning slams into ruthless hunger. Hushed breaths tangle with mine, his mouth devouring secrets on my neck.
Sweat slicks our skin against creaking walls, midnight silence our only witness. He ravages me there, possessive growls marking every inch as his. Thrusts that bind tighter than guilt, whispered vows teetering on discovery's edge. "Mine," he rasps, tormented fire in his eyes, and I shatter, defiant, owned.
It's betrayal carved deep. Dad's sacred brotherhood, my unscarred youth, the fragile self I pieced from isolation-all dangle by hushed ecstasy's thread. One slip, and family implodes. My world fractures beyond repair.
But denying him? That hollow ache returns, worse. He's devastation dressed as temptation, the pillar crumbling into predator for me. Every stolen night pulls me deeper, reckless thrill humming in my veins.
What devours us first-discovery's blaze or this hunger we can't extinguish?

A full-length age gap dark taboo dad's best friend erotic romance featuring a lonely college girl and her father's possessive guardian.