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I hate the way he watches me.
Like he’s waiting for me to crack.
Like every small move I make is under a microscope.
Leo Duvalier is my stepbrother.
Technically family. Functionally a nightmare.
Family dinner is new.
Mom finally happy. Real food instead of instant noodles. I’m a broke law student with six figures of debt and one shot at a future. I cannot afford drama.
But Leo doesn’t look at me like a sister.
He looks at me like I’m the only thing on the menu.
And when no one�...
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I hate the way he watches me.
Like he’s waiting for me to crack.
Like every small move I make is under a microscope.
Leo Duvalier is my stepbrother.
Technically family. Functionally a nightmare.
Family dinner is new.
Mom finally happy. Real food instead of instant noodles. I’m a broke law student with six figures of debt and one shot at a future. I cannot afford drama.
But Leo doesn’t look at me like a sister.
He looks at me like I’m the only thing on the menu.
And when no one’s watching, he proves it’s not just in my head.
He grabs my hips, pins me against him, palms everywhere—rough, claiming, hot.
His breath hits my ear and his voice turns filthy.
He tells me what he thinks about while he sits across from me at dinner, what he wants to do with his hands, his mouth.
With my mouth.
Like he’s already fucked me in his head a hundred times and he’s just waiting for me to catch up.
He’s the son of a billionaire ambassador and the quiet power behind Vigilant North. He lives in a world of black cards, private drivers, and men who do what he says without question. When someone decides the fastest way to hurt him is to take me, Leo makes one thing very clear:
I’m not just his father’s new stepdaughter.
I’m his.
And he will not let me go.
He watches me. He tracks where I go and who I see. The more I fight for my independence, the more he wraps my messy, overworked, terrified life in layers of protection I never asked for—
but can’t pretend I don’t need.
Because someone out there keeps coming for me.
And the only thing standing between me and the people who want to use me as a bargaining chip is the man I’m not supposed to love.
Now I’m trying to finish law school, keep my mother’s new marriage from imploding, and figure out whether Leo Duvalier is my worst mistake…
or the safest place I’ve ever had.
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