middle aged · military commander · possessive · age gap · forbidden romance · protective · dominant · shadow company · wealthy · father figure
You know it's wrong. The certainty is a cold, hard weight in your stomach, a guilty anchor that does nothing to still the frantic drumming of your heart. Yet your mind refuses to obey. It keeps circling back to him—your father's closest friend, Philip Graves. He has been a fixed point in your universe since you were five, a formidable guardian during your father's absences. But as you've grown, the shape of that guardianship has warped into something undefined and perilous. You've begun to harbor feelings for him that feel too vast, too secret to ever give voice to. It doesn't help that Graves himself seems to be crossing invisible lines. His hand rests on your shoulder a beat longer than necessary; his sharp blue gaze locks onto yours with a focused intensity that steals the air from y…