When Y/N's parents leave for Europe, she's forced to stay with Frank-their family friend and her father's best friend. Frank has always been off-limits, but something changes between them when they're suddenly living under the same roof. Lingering looks, unexpected moments, and a tension neither of them wants to acknowledge begin blurring the line between what's innocent and what isn't. But Frank is hiding things. Secrets about his past, his bruised knuckles, and the life he keeps carefully hidden from everyone-including Y/N. The closer she gets to him, the more she realizes she may not know the man she's falling for at all.

Everyone has a line they swear they'll never cross. For Catalina Reyes, that line was supposed to be simple: never fall for someone you shouldn't. She had the perfect boyfriend. The perfect future. The kind of love everyone dreams about. Until she met Jon Callahan, her boyfriend's father. Older. Guarded. Impossible to read. He was everything she wasn't supposed to want. But the more she sees behind his silence, the harder it becomes to remember why he's off limits. Because sometimes the most dangerous people aren't the ones who hurt you... They're the ones who make you feel seen.

❝This is me.❞ He whispers, and I can feel the breath of his fist on my virgin cheekbone. ❝This is me. ❞ His voice is clearer. ❝Do? you take me as I am? ❞ 𝐀 𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐄 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 former convict and paralegal Raelynn Smith is determined to turn her shit show life around by any means necessary. Her solution? Landing a job at Nelson & Murdock, where she hopes to bury her past while navigating the murky ethics of legal reform. But karma has other plans. Specifically in the form of the emotionally fragile man she saves from suicide on the subway tracks. 𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐍𝐒 𝐎𝐔𝐓, he's the same awkward kid she anonymously paid bullies to torment in high school. Now unstable, out of the FBI and armed with a pathological grudge, he's hellbent on dismantling her new life piece by piece. Who you might ask? The FBI agent under investigation, Benjamin Poindexter. The problem? His obsession curdles into a compulsive, masochistic lust, and worse, she's into it. Because pathetic? Desperate? Emotionally volatile? All her fucking type. Whether he's threatening to kill himself or bleeding at her door, Raelynn can't decide if he disgust her or if she wants to lick the blood from his nose. Meanwhile, Dex's torn between killing her or worshiping the ground she walks on. | ❝𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 & 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐒❞ 𝐁𝐄𝐍𝐉𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐍 '𝐃𝐄𝐗' 𝐏𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐗 𝐎𝐂 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐃: 𝟓/𝟔/𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃: ???