Since the day Blake moved in as my mother’s new husband, I’ve been suffocating under a forbidden obsession.

I thought it was my secret—until I caught him claiming my mother in a cinema restroom stall, only to realize he had known I was watching the whole time.

Later that night at a haunted theme park, the terrifying atmosphere pushed me right into his arms. When a scare actor split our group, Blake dragged me into a cryo pod to hide. Trapped together, my mother stood just inches away, pressing her face directly against the glass to search for us. In that breathless, terrifying silence, Blake and I crossed the line.

But the thrill of the risk was a drug, and what started in the shadows was about to consume every corner of my mother's perfect life.