Forbidden Among the Stars

They were my father's best friends. Older * Untouchable * Off-limits in every way that mattered. For years, they watched me-protected me-always there, always close, but never crossing the line. Leo knows exactly how to calm the storm in me-and exactly how far to push before I stop wanting to be calm at all. Aries guards me like something already claimed, his presence a constant, dangerous promise that no one touches me unless he allows it. Orion looks at me like I've always belonged to him, his restraint the only thing that ever kept me out of his reach... Then the tension started to shift into something I wasn't supposed to feel... One moment where restraint shattered and something forbidden took its place. One night that blurred every line between us... and left me with something none of us could take back. So I left. - I told myself it was over, that whatever had happened between us could never exist beyond that night. But I didn't just leave them behind. I left with a secret. A secret I kept from them for over a year. But secrets have a way of working their way to the surface... Now my father is gone, and the system he built is becoming something far more dangerous than he ever intended. And somehow, that same secret-the one I've been carrying alone-ties me back to them in ways I can't escape. Because they're back. They say I belong to them. That I always have. And the way they look at me now...they're done letting me run...