Acts of Atonement: A Single Dad Age Gap Romance (Men of WRATH, Book 1) by Eleanor Aldrick

Author:Eleanor Aldrick [Aldrick, Eleanor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: age gap, babysitter, contemporary, forbidden, nanny, new adult, older man, romance, romantic suspense, single, southern, suspense, taboo, younger woman
Publisher: The Bookish Owl, LLC
Published: 2020-06-06T16:00:00+00:00

WILLIAM

IT’S BEEN ABOUT ten minutes since Bella went to her room, yet I’m still rooted in the same spot as when she left me. I want to show her how I truly feel, but doing so would only bring on more complications. Complications we don’t need right now. Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place.

I know I was a total dick to her, but in my defense I had to be. A relationship with Bella isn’t possible and filling her head with dreams that could never be is ten times worse than my being a cold-hearted bastard every now and then.

The truth of the matter is that I would love nothing more than to make Bella mine in every way possible. Hell, if it were solely up to me, I would marry her and lock her in my bedroom, only letting her out for sustenance when necessary. Okay, I’m exaggerating… but only by a little.

Bella makes me feel things I’ve never felt with anyone else. No matter what I do or how much I remind myself that she is completely off-limits, I find that my thoughts always wander back to her. I haven’t even been able to fuck anyone else, nor had the desire to since she started nannying for Harper.

Harper. Another reason why I wouldn’t want to be without her. Bella is loving and patient, always putting my daughter’s needs first, something Heather never did. Deep in my heart, I know that Bella would be an amazing mother to Harper, and when the time came, to any children we had together.

I have no idea how I’m going to manage without her when she starts college in the fall.

The idea has my stomach in knots, bringing forth unbidden visions of her in the arms of some college punk. The scene changes and in vivid technicolor I see Bella dancing at a college party with some random jock.

Squeezing my eyes shut, I try to push the visions out but it’s impossible. I grind my teeth as the scene in my mind progresses to Bella making out with the random guy. Fuck that. My vision turns to red as I remember her threat from earlier: You aren’t the only man who knows how to use his tongue just the way I like.

“Over my dead body.” I hear myself say out loud.

The only way another man will be putting his hands on what’s mine is if I’m dead and gone. And even then, I’d come back and haunt their asses from my grave.

The visions, though horrible, serve to spark a fire under my ass. It’s just what I needed to see things clearly and give me that necessary push into action. To hell with the obstacles and impropriety, Isabella Moretti is mine and it’s about fucking time the world knew it.

Decision made, I rise from my seat only to be stopped at the sight of Bella entering the formal living room. Her face is pale and her eyes glossy.

“What’s wrong?” I close the gap between us and pull her against me.

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