Miles never wanted a new family, especially when his father moved his quiet new stepbrother into the adjoining bedroom. What began as cruel domestic pranks gradually shifted into fierce mutual protection once high school bullies crossed the line. Behind closed doors, shared adolescent pain turned into a forbidden romance that neither teenager knew how to stop.
When blackmail photographs shattered their secret graduation holiday, Grant vanished overnight without leaving an explanation or a forwarding address. Years later, Miles walks into a ruthless merger meeting only to confront the identical face that abandoned him. He must decide whether to ruin the rival executive out of spite or uncover the dark domestic coercion that drove him away.
