It wasn’t just a crush.
It was a need raw, aching, and wrong in every possible way.
Lila and I had been best friends since freshman year of college, and I'd always thought her dad was handsome. Charismatic. A little too confident. But over time, it became more than that.
He was magnetic.
Mr. Maddox had that kind of presence that wrapped around you before you realized it. He didn’t try to flirt. He didn’t have to. His silence did the talking. His calm, his control it undressed me without laying a finger.
And worse he knew it.
The Summer That Changed Everything
Lila had begged me to stay the summer with her at their family estate while her dad worked remotely.
It was supposed to be a relaxing girls’ break: wine, pool days, binge watching terrible shows.
It turned into something else
