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.

When she comes home for summer, the one man who makes her feel safe is the one she can never have-her father's best friend, Frank Castle. Older, scarred, and fiercely protective, Frank tries to keep his distance. But in the hazy heat of long summers and stolen moments, forbidden desire begins to unravel them both. A slow-burn age-gap romance thick with tension, tenderness, and dangerous temptation. TW: heavy smutt, swearing, alcohol, cheating mentioned, age gaps, sex, slight violence.

𝑇𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑤𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑡 Ivy has spent most of her life moving from one place to another because of her father's work, she never really had the chance to feel at home anywhere. When they moved to New York, she decided that this time she wants things to be different and hopes she can finally build a normal life for herself. Starting at a new school, Ivy slowly meets new people and finds herself drawn to someone she never expected to become important to her. At the same time, she begins noticing that there is much more to her father and his mysterious work than she has ever been told. And somewhere in the middle of all of it is Spider-Man, the mysterious hero everyone in New York seems to know about. Ivy doesn't think much of him at first, but she might soon realize that her new life is connected to him in ways she never could have imagined.