Stay Small for Me

Ksenia is twenty-five but has never truly lived. Haunted by a childhood stolen too soon and burdened by memories too dark to name, she drifts through life with quiet detachment-until one rainy morning leads her to the office of Dominic Salvatore, a therapist who sees too much, feels too deeply, and has no business caring for her the way he does.

Dominic is polished, composed, and in control. But when Ksenia walks into his office, all of that begins to unravel. There's something in her stillness that ignites every protective instinct in him. She is vulnerable, submissive, and devastatingly broken-and he knows the line between doctor and desire is one he should never cross.

What begins as therapy becomes something else entirely. As their sessions grow more raw, and Ksenia's fragile regressions reveal the child within, Dominic finds himself aching to heal what he never caused-and wanting what he should never touch.

In a city that never sleeps, two damaged souls collide in a forbidden dance of dominance and surrender, pain and desire, reparenting and erotic tension.
This is not a love story.
This is how love breaks the rules.