Falling for my Dad's Rival: An Off-Limits Single Dad Romance by Sophia Bent

Author:Sophia Bent [Bent, Sophia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-09-15T16:00:00+00:00

SIXTEEN

SOFIA

When is a convenient time to fall in love? I doubt there is any moment that could be termed suitable to indulge in a game that had you messed up from the very beginning and was all about losing. Yet, I would have preferred falling for anyone else over the thirty-year-old cold widower who beats himself up every time he is inside of me, and whose head I need to offer to daddy dearest soon. Even though I couldn't choose the man, I certainly would have preferred finding out in a more subtle way, not when he was inside of me, and I had just lied to him. Not when I was taking advantage of his daughter and crossing every boundary I made years ago that I thought prevented me from being Alonso but had been a damn lie to make me comfortable. It made my life as a hypocrite easier and certainly made it easier for me to pretend I was better than Alonso.

To think that concern had been etched in his voice when he came looking for me, and I had to keep a door between us because I was scared that if he looked at me, he might just know.

And yet, because I have already admitted to my shamelessness, I had made him promise me his forgiveness. The least I owed him was taking his hatred, but I just couldn't live with it. I couldn't. So, I took advantage of his worry and trust.

I couldn't even pretend to be anything other than an Alejandro to the end.

I climbed down from my bed, already accepting that I had no business dozing off when I had gone ahead and fallen in love with a man that will long for my head soon. And there was the knowledge that every day I slept and woke up brought me closer to the end of my summer break, and to the end of Father's already dwindling patience.

Seeing Jose sitting in the living room, with damp hair, wearing an oversized T-shirt and joggers should have made me retreat to my room, but I continued my descent to him, swallowing down my guilt and casting my lingering stare at him, committing every harsh stroke of his handsome face into my heart. An aristocratic chin that had never dipped in defeat, hard frost-like eyes that never showed any emotion, and his lips which were probably the softest thing on his face. A face that was fixated on his laptop but softened considerably when he looked up to meet my gaze.

My knees had almost given way at the warmth in his eyes, and I moved towards him, trying to act like my heart didn't beat wildly at the thought that Jose only looked at me that way. Only me! A look reserved for a girl that has never truly belonged without using a page from her father's handbook or being her father's tool.

I wondered what had changed and why I had been so blind to see it.

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