Stepdaddy Dearest

When Sasha’s mother walked out, she left behind more than memories—she left Sasha with him. Her stepfather. A man too young to be her father, too haunted to be anything else. He drinks to forget. She stays to remember. Nights stretch long in their shared silence, where glances last too long and words come too close. He’s a broken man, and she knows she should stay away. But the heart doesn’t care about right or wrong—it only knows the heat that fills the spaces where love should never live.