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In the world of trillion-dollar finance, I’m accustomed to getting all I want—except for the much younger daughter of my best friend. Blair Thomas gives me reason to live again after the tragic deaths of my wife and son during childbirth. And she re-ignites my Daddy Dom kink… Can the flames of our forbidden love flourish or will they dwindle?
Luc Montaigne—the sexy Silver Fox and the last Duke of Blois—lights a fire throughout my body with his smoldering gaze. But the sadness lingers, and I want him to live again. For me, his little girl, despite my real father’s disapproval. Can I have my cake and eat it too?
1
7 Years Ago
Luc
Each clump of dirt buries my heart deeper.
Until I suffocate.
But I cannot move my eyes from the sight of the silver casket that holds my love and my long wished for heir—my wife and my son.
Carole died as Lucas slipped from her womb, not breathing. Instead of the robust cries of a newborn baby, the birthing room filled with silence. Neither my wife nor my son issued a sound. She passed on a sigh. The umbilical cord snaked around his tiny throat, choked the life from him with nothing uttered.
Between cries of agony, her last wish was for me to care for our son. To never let him forget his Maman. And I couldn’t do that. In the end, she will care for him.
I placed them in the same coffin. Fitting since they left this world together. My son will spend eternity wrapped in his mother’s loving arms. No more pain for either of them.
But for me, unimaginable agony continues.
And I wish I were with them.
We’ve always wanted children. A son to carry the Montaigne name and the title as Duke of Blois into the future.
Now there’s nothing.
No wife.
No son.
Gone before we could live as a family. Watch Lucas toddle and grow into a fine young man. Give him a sibling or two, as Carole and I planned. Love my wife long into our years together on this Earth.
All gone.
My heart constricts with a shudder through my body and a strangled cry past my lips. But my eyes remain on the casket.
“Come, Monsieur le duc. It will do you no good to stand in the rain and watch anymore. Madame la duchesse and Marquis de Blois rest in peace now. They will always be with you. However, the mourners left for the château. You should be there, Monsieur le duc. Please come with me.”
Thoughts interrupted, I start at the sound of Éloise Belrose’s voice.
She cared for me since birth and was to be Lucas’ primary nanny. But that’s not happening now, is it?
Without glancing away from the grave, I respond.
“Nounou, let me be. I will return to the château when they bury my wife and my son properly. Have Henri deal with the mourners. Now, leave me in peace.”
I angle my body away from her to emphasize the point.
She places a hand on my arm and murmurs her apologies.
The light touch shreds the last thread holding my composure intact.
A heartrending cry rises from the depths of my soul. Shoulders hunch as my body curls in on itself.
Tears blur the vision of gravediggers as they heap more dirt on the casket. The thuds match the pounding of my heart as it slams against my rib cage.
