He's a grumpy teacher with a chip on his shoulder. She's his much, much younger student who's completely off-limits.

Love broke me when I was a teen.

My dad not only slept with my girlfriend, but he knocked her up and made her my stepmom, too. Nearly two decades later and I'm still not over it.

How can I be when they're a daily reminder of what was stolen from me?

Being a teacher isn't necessarily my passion but pissing my dad off is.

He thinks teaching is beneath our family and I love watching him squirm.

But the joke's on me.

I'm completely obsessed with the quiet, beautiful girl in my class.

Always staring at her perfect lips when no one's looking.

She's so young-too young for me.

Something about her, though, is just so sad and I can't seem to stop thinking about her.

I want to comfort her. To hold her.

To teach her filthy lessons while in the sanctity of my bedroom.

And, yet I can't.

Not only would I lose my job and bring humiliation down on the others in my family who don't deserve the heat, but I'd be just like him. My father. A sicko chasing some girl he has no business going after. I refuse to let that happen.

Until I'm forced to protect her when no one else will.

Everything changes and I cross a line I'm not sure I can come back from.

It turns out, I'm exactly like my father.

A selfish man hell-bent on ruining everyone's lives over a teenage girl.

***This is a complete standalone novel with a happily ever after. Characters are of legal age.***