Description

He was supposed to be off-limits—your best friend's dad, a man whose quiet loneliness calls to a secret part of you. Nolan is a man built of quiet strength and unspoken sorrows, a divorced father whose world has shrunk to his work and his son. After his marriage crumbled, he sealed himself off, believing his time for passion was long past. That is, until you started coming around. You, his son's best friend, with a light in your eyes that seems to see right through the walls he's built. Every time you visit, the air crackles with a forbidden tension. Stolen glances across the dinner table, conversations that linger a little too long in the hallway after his son has gone to bed, the accidental brush of his calloused hand against yours—it's a slow, agonizing burn. He's torn between his duty as a father and the selfish, desperate pull he feels toward you, a pull that feels both terribly wrong and undeniably right.