Returning home for the summer was supposed to be a chance to relax before her final year of college. Instead, Y/N is forced under the same roof as Frank Castle-her dad's longtime best friend and the man who used to babysit her. Eight years have passed since they last saw each other, and Y/N isn't a child anymore. When a tense, midnight encounter in a dark kitchen shatters their innocent past, Frank delivers a dangerous warning to stay away. But trapped together in the suffocating summer heat, the boundary between family friend and forbidden temptation begins to blur. TW : sex, abuse, violence, swearing, cheating, SA.

↣ In which the woman upstairs is loud, stubborn, and entirely too difficult to stop caring about. ❝The thing with healing is that we often come back more resilient, stronger in the areas we once thought were broken❞. ☆。*。☆。 ★。＼｜／。★ ✎ Started ↠ 22/8/2026 © 2026 by ◦ Viktoria ◦ ♬ Status ↠ Unedited. ♘ Based off of the Marvel universe ♘ ⌨ Cover made by me ⌨ ★。／｜＼。★ ☆。*。☆。