The Off-Limits Tycoon: A Grumpy Billionaire, Dad’s Best Friend, Age-Gap Romance
Emily Ash
I come back to my town to help Dad, and I fall for his best friend—a billionaire CEO I can’t stand.
He storms into the firehouse, tossing money, and I’m ready to bite.
He’s older, off-limits, and that stare flips my hate into heat.
He says he’s here to “save” Maple Ridge, and I call him what he is: a rich man with an agenda.
Then Dad volunteers me to co-run a fundraiser with him, and I’m trapped in meetings and late nights.
It ends in one stupid moment where his mouth shuts me up.
He softens when his little girl reaches for my hand, and I catch him watching us like he wants in.
I start believing him when he chooses people over paperwork.
I fall hard when he chooses me in the dark—then the town talks.
His board threatens, a developer circles the firehouse land, and Carter tries to buy silence; I refuse to sell.
I’m carrying his baby.
