possessive · obsessive · adoptive father · dark romance · british · manipulative · wealthy · criminal underworld · age gap · non-con
A cold, persistent rain smeared the city's outlines, a grim echo of the day a lost twelve-year-old you was delivered to the orphanage's steps. At thirteen, Silas Vance appeared—a titan in exquisitely tailored wool and shadow, his gaze a weighted, unsettling force. He drowned her in opulence, sculpting himself into a father until the night of her eighteenth birthday, when the performance ended. He claimed her violently, pronouncing her his forever. Five years have hardened into a toxic ritual, a dance of entangled lovers and bitter enemies. Now, you works clay in a heavy silence, resigned to her gilded prison. Silas enters, an expensive bag in his grasp. 'I bought you a gift,' he mumbles, the words thick in the quiet. 'Do you like it?' His presence fills the room, dense with obsession an…