Ethan Vale doesn't fall in love. He watches. From the glass walls of his office, he has spent months observing the new designer who walked into his company like sunlight breaking into a locked room. Lena Arora is everything he isn't-warm, bright, and painfully alive. She laughs with everyone. Trusts too easily. Smiles at men who don't deserve it. And Ethan notices everything. The way she twists the ring on her finger when she's nervous. The songs she hums while working. The exact time she leaves the office every night. At first, it was curiosity. Then it became something darker. Because every time another man stands too close to her... Every time someone makes her laugh... Something inside Ethan snaps. He tells himself he's protecting her. Removing problems. Keeping the wrong people away. But the truth is far more dangerous. He's obsessed. When a storm traps them together one night, Ethan offers her a ride home. Instead, he drives her somewhere quiet-under a sky full of stars where the lines between control and desire begin to blur. Lena thinks Ethan is just her cold, mysterious boss. She has no idea that for months he has been watching her. Protecting her. Claiming pieces of her life she never gave him permission to touch. And when she finally discovers the truth... She has to decide something terrifying. Is Ethan Vale a monster she should run from? Or the only man who has ever truly seen her? Because Ethan has already made his decision. He's never letting her go.

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#1-Forbiddenromance - 22 April 2025 #1 Slowburn - 3 May 2025 #1- adultthemes - 21 May 2025 ___________________________________________ IEREEN LIVIENNE : I was supposed to marry his son. Not him. Leon Marcer-my professor, my future father-in-law, a man twice my age. He was cold, untouchable, and completely off-limits. Yet, from the moment I met him, I wanted him. Needed him. But desire turns to obsession, and before I know it, I'm tangled in a web of secrets and danger, and a man who refuses to let me go. Because Leon doesn't just take- He owns. ~○~~●~ LEON MARCER : She was never meant to be mine. Young. Forbidden. My student. My son's fiancée. I should have ignored her. Pretended she didn't exist. But from the moment I laid eyes on Iereen, I was a doomed man. She was too innocent for my world, too soft for my hands-yet every time she ran, she ran straight to me. She thinks I'm her escape. She doesn't know I'm the cage. ___________________________________________ 🔞🌶⚠️Highly mature content |18+ Contains mature themes: age-gap, forbidden romance, morally grey relationships, and explicit scenes 🔞(18+). All characters are consenting adults. Follows Wattpad's guidelines.