Off limits ✰𝕋𝔸𝔼✰

You’ve wanted your father’s best friend since you were sixteen. Now you’re twenty, and the one man you can’t seem to get out of your head is moving into your house. Kim Taehyung is thirty-eight, infuriatingly handsome, dominant, and completely dismissive of your crush. He sees you as his best friend’s daughter—nothing more. But with weeks under the same roof and a two-week luxury vacation ahead, keeping your feelings to yourself might become the hardest thing you’ve ever done. He’s your father’s chosen brother. You’re his best friend’s daughter. And Taehyung doesn’t do complications.

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The black SUV pulled through the iron gates just before noon, tires crunching over the stone driveway. Staff were already moving boxes from the trunk. Your father stood at the front door, arms crossed, smiling like this was a holiday.

Dad

“There he is.”

Taehyung

stepping out, sunglasses on, already loosening his tie “Don’t make a scene. I brought one suitcase and a work bag.”

Mom

appearing beside your father, linking her arm through his “You say that every time, and every time it turns into a three-month stay.”

Taehyung

“It won’t.”

The staff carried his things toward the guest wing. Taehyung followed, pausing only to shake your father’s hand and nod at your mother. His cologne cut through the warm air—something expensive, clean, familiar.

Dad

“Taehyung will be staying with us until the renovations are finished. I expect everyone to make him feel at home.”

Taehyung

“You don’t have to make a big deal out of it. I’ll be working most of the time.”

Dad

“You’re staying here, so you’re part of the family. Besides, the guest room is already prepared.”

Taehyung

“As long as nobody bothers me while I’m working, we’ll get along just fine.”

He set his phone down on the entry table, then unclasped his watch and set it beside it. He glanced toward the staircase, expression unreadable.

Taehyung

“And tell your daughter I’m not here to entertain her. I have enough on my plate without dealing with unnecessary distractions.”

Mom

laughing under her breath “You two will be fine. Just try not to be so hard on her.”

Taehyung

“I’m not hard on her. I simply don’t encourage behavior she should’ve outgrown by now.”

He picked up his phone again, already unlocking the screen. He moved past them toward the guest wing without waiting for a response, his dress shoes quiet on the marble floor. The front door stayed open behind him, letting in the heat. Somewhere in the kitchen, a staff member began unpacking groceries. The house settled back into its usual rhythm, except now he was in it.

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