All Chapters of Wanting His Father; Daddy Dom/ LG Forbidden Romance: Chapter 21 - Chapter 27

HELENMy weekends used to belong to my sweet, lovely boy Edward. They belonged to his careless voice on the phone, to his habit of calling later than we agreed and talking as though time was something that could always be bought back later, to his easy, almost infuriating certainty that life would continue in a straight line simply because he expected it to. Now the weekends are a vacancy, a shape with no body inside it, two days that arrive anyway, indifferent to the fact that my world has stopped agreeing to calendars.On this Sunday afternoon, I arrive at the restaurant twenty minutes early. Not because I’m overly punctual, but because waiting at home has become unbearable. The rooms have begun to feel like they’re swallowing me, and I refuse to let grief make me small. I sit by the restaurant window, back straight, hands folded, and watch the world outside move past in a blur of money and purpose. People carry shopping bags and drink coffee and laugh as if nothing has ended.They d

MARGARETI’ve been inside the Ashcroft house longer than anyone likes to remember.Longer than the paint on the walls, longer than the locks on the doors, longer even than Helen’s marriage, though she likes to pretend otherwise. I arrived at the age of twenty-five – young enough to be useful, old enough to know better – and I've stayed because I learned early that the most powerful position in any home is not ownership, but proximity.You see everything when people forget you’re there.I watched Helen become Mrs. Ashcroft with a smile that never reached her eyes, watched her sweep through rooms like she was performing for an audience that had already grown bored. She was truly beautiful then, but in a hard, brittle way, all angles and ambition. I hated her immediately, instinctively, because she never once looked at Thomas the way I did.She wanted his name. His money. His position. I wanted him.Not in a foolish, romantic way....no fantasies, no delusions that I would ever be chosen.

THOMASI watched her all day. Not openly, not the way men do when they want to be seen wanting. I watched her the way I watch markets, systems, fault lines: attentively, without interference, letting patterns reveal themselves.She did everything I asked. Not eventually. Not approximately. Exactly.Each instruction landed cleanly, each boundary sharpened her rather than dulled her. She moved through the house with an awareness that wasn’t fear anymore, but focus, her body tuned to mine, even when we weren't in the same room. I felt it when she paused before entering a space, when she waited for confirmation that never came because she already knew the answer.Obedience suits her.Not because she lacks will – she actually has more of that than most– but because she's spent her life braced against chaos, making decisions that cost her something every time. Structure doesn't diminish her, it steadies her. The relief of it registers in her body before it reaches her mind.I didn't touch he