Andee –
They were my father’s best friends.
Older * Untouchable * Off-limits in every way that mattered.
For years, they watched me—protected me—always there, always close, but never crossing the line.
Leo knows exactly how to calm the storm in me—and exactly how far to push before I stop wanting to be calm at all.
Aries guards me like something already claimed, his presence a constant, dangerous promise that no one touches me unless he allows it.
Orion looks at me like I’ve always belonged to him, his restraint the only thing that ever kept me out of his reach…
Then the tension started to shift into something I wasn’t supposed to feel… One moment where restraint shattered and something forbidden took its place. One night that blurred every line between us… and left me with something none of us could take back.
So I left. – I told myself it was over, that whatever had happened between us could never exist beyond that night. But I didn’t just leave them behind. I left with a secret. A secret I kept from them for almost a year.
But secrets have a way of working their way to the surface…
Orion
We should have stayed away from her.
Andee was never meant to be ours. She was the one line we never crossed—the daughter of the only man we ever respected enough not to break. We promised her father we’d protect her. But we wanted her long before we had any right to.
Now her father is gone, and the system he built is turning into something dangerous enough to bring the world to its knees.
We came back to contain it. To finish what he started. But the truth is…We didn’t just come back for the system.
We came back for her.
And then we realize what she’s been hiding something. She took something that was already ours.
And this time… We’re done pretending we can let her go.
