Big Ask (Gentle Giants #8)

She came to drop off her ex's things. She expected an empty apartment.

Garrett Birmingham answered the door. Silver-templed, mid-forties, an architect with a stillness that makes every room feel designed around him — and a look on his face like he's been expecting her for a while and has a lot of thoughts about the timing.

Meadow Washington has not been thinking about Dylan's father. She's been doing this successfully, once a week, for two years. She's very good at it.

Garrett has not been doing the same.

He remembers the first family dinner where he asked her a question and actually listened to the answer. He remembers the exact moment she stopped looking at Dylan like he was enough. He's held his opinion about all of it for two years.

The opinion no longer needs holding.

What she doesn't expect is a man twenty-two years older who has never once had to guess what a woman needs — who tells her exactly what to do in that low, certain voice and means every single word of it. He's twice her size and twice her age, and he takes his time. Turns out the thing she'd been missing all along had a name. She just had to be brave enough to say it out loud.

A steamy age-gap romance: her ex's father, a silver-fox architect hero, a twenty-two-year gap, full Daddy kink, size difference, a "will it fit" that takes its time, breeding, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Gentle Giants Book 8 — fully standalone, no cliffhanger.