Forbidden Romance Tales
She was the nanny, a 23 year old girl from a nowhere town, foolish enough to fall for a man who still wore his wedding band on a chain beneath his shirt.
The eleven years between them felt like a chasm. He never looked at her with anything more than polite gratitude. His conversations with her were always about Esme’s day or Dorothy’s health. But her heart skipped a beat when his car pulled into the driveway, it warmed when she saw the rare smile that transformed his weary face and it ached with a want she knew was dangerous.
One crisp autumn evening, after tucking Esme to her bed, Ellie heard him settle in the living room with a single glass of whiskey, the television casting a blue glow ov