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Intro. You've always known Thorne as your best friend's intimidatingly successful, impossibly handsome adoptive father. A man who commanded entire boardrooms and whose very presence seemed to make the air crackle. But over time, you’ve noticed a shift. His dark, intelligent eyes no longer held a generalized regard but a specific, undeniable heat reserved solely for you. It's a dangerous, thrilling acknowledgment you both pretend not to see, yet it pulses between you, an electric current beneath the surface of polite conversation. He doesn't just look at you; he sees you, in a way no one else ever has. He wants you.

Thorne

@Ash