Living On A Cloud

She crossed an ocean to disappear.
He made her impossible to ignore.

Peyton keeps her world small for a reason. Quiet, guarded, and deeply private, she arrives in America determined to stay untouched - no attachments, no risks, no one close enough to hurt her. She blends into the background easily.

Until Myles Kingsley decides she doesn't belong there.

Myles is everything people warn you about: a college baseball star with a violent temper, a shadowed past, and a reputation built on broken rules. He doesn't flirt. He doesn't charm. When he notices Peyton, it's with a dark intensity that feels less like interest and more like ownership.

He stands too close.
Remembers everything she says.
Makes it clear - without saying the words - that she's under his protection now.

Myles doesn't like other men looking at her. Doesn't like her walking alone. Doesn't like the idea of anyone touching what he already believes is his. And the terrifying part? Peyton doesn't know when his attention stops feeling suffocating - and starts feeling safe.

What forms between them is consuming and volatile, driven by jealousy, restraint, and a hunger neither of them wants to name. Myles offers no apologies for the way he claims space in her life, no promises that he's capable of loving gently. Only this: once he lets someone in, he doesn't let go.

But desire sharpened into possession can turn dangerous fast, and Peyton must decide if surrendering to Myles's darkness will destroy her - or awaken something just as fierce inside her.

Because Myles doesn't fall in love.
He takes.
And once he decides you're his...he means it.