I love a woman half my age. My former stepdaughter.DesmondI know I should stay away from Rory, but I can't help myself. She's a beautiful soul inside a beautiful body. A sexy body. A body that makes mine yearn for things forbidden.When her mother (my ex-wife) abandons Rory during the Thanksgiving holiday, I speak before I can think, and I offer to let her stay with me.What was I thinking?I know what I was thinking. It's not something I can say aloud. It's taboo...best left in the shadows of my mind.But Rory is light, and I can't hide from it. I don't want to.Still, no matter how much I want her...her light, I know it's wrong to have these feelings for her. She's barely more than half my age. Even if I can get past the fact that I was married to her mother, there is still that.Rory's young and beautiful. She can have any man she wants. How can I think she might want me?As much as I try to follow my better senses, I keep feeling the tug, the draw of her .She's all I can think about.All that I could ever want.I feel myself straying from the straight and narrow path I have always followed.RoryMy life has never been a fairy tale. But I've really busted it wide open this time. I mean, how can my stepfather be my prince charming?It doesn't matter what I think, though. To him, I will always be the baggage that came with marrying my mother.It doesn't matter that I'm twenty-four now and a woman.A woman with needs.I need to stay away from him...the temptation that overtakes me every time I am near him.My good intentions go to hell in a handbasket, though, when my Thanksgiving plans fall apart and Desmond invites me to stay with him.How can I say no?With him I feel something...something I've never felt before. Does he feel it, too?I doubt it. I'm just imagining things. It's just a schoolgirl crush gone on too long. That's all.But it feels like more, and I want more.I want him.Even if he does feel the same, how can we make it work? What will people think?What will my mother think?My brain cautions me to pull back as my heart plunges forward.Which do I follow?Do I even have a choice?