Evan Parker knows better than to fall for Daniel Hayes.
Daniel is older. Wealthy. Emotionally untouchable. He's also Evan's best friend's father — the man letting him stay in his beautiful home after a housing disaster leaves Evan stranded before the semester begins.
The rules should've been simple:
Finish school.
Keep his distance.
Stop wanting something impossible.
Instead, late-night conversations and quiet moments start turning into something dangerous. Because Daniel notices everything — the way Evan laughs, the way he studies architecture like it matters, the way he looks at him like he already sees through every wall.
And Daniel wants him back.
Now Daniel's carefully controlled life is beginning to crack apart, and Evan is realizing this was never just a crush.
It's obsession.
It's comfort.
It's the terrifying possibility of being loved by someone who should never have touched him at all.
