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Claimed: A Billionaire Age Gap Secret Baby Silver Fox Romance
He gave her a fake name and disappeared at dawn. She has been hating him for four years. Their daughter is three.LILA BEAUMONT
I am twenty-five. I appraise art in Athens, and three weeks ago a commission came into my firm too good to argue with. A private collection on a private island. A fee with one more zero than the job deserved, and one condition typed at the bottom in the appraiser is to be Miss Beaumont.
The door at the top of the steps opens before I reach it. The man standing in it has a beard now, and silver at his temples, but exactly the same mouth. Four years ago in a Mykonos hotel he told me his name was Theo. My daughter is three.
He says, "Hello, Lila," like he knows me.
There is a folder in the second drawer of the gallery desk. It is my life. Every rent payment. Every preschool invoice. Every immigration filing. Four years of it, and he left it where he knew I would find it.
ADRIAN DRAKOS
I am forty-four. In this family my cousins decide, draft, guard and watch. I am the one they send in first, because words are my trade. I am the cousin who wins without anyone bleeding.
Our enemies moved on a Drakos child. I stood at that funeral and understood what loving her out loud would cost her. Bringing the mother of my daughter into this family that year would have killed them both.
So I made the decision. I kept her alive from a distance for forty-four months and let her hate me for every one of them. The rent. The school. An investigator at the end of her street. In four years, no one touched her.
The war is over now. I have come for what is mine. I will not apologize for the choices, and I would make every one of them again.
A possessive single mom second chance romance set in a dark Greek shipping dynasty. Book 4 of 5 connected standalones. Each book is a complete short read, devoured in one sitting, featuring a different couple. Each book ends in HEA.
✓ age gap (19 years) · ✓ secret baby / single mom heroine · ✓ patient hero / “I always knew” · ✓ one-night-stand consequences · ✓ silver fox billionaire · ✓ Greek dynasty · ✓ slower-burn instalove · ✓ explicit / high heat · ✓ HEA · ✓ novella
I am twenty-five. I appraise art in Athens, and three weeks ago a commission came into my firm too good to argue with. A private collection on a private island. A fee with one more zero than the job deserved, and one condition typed at the bottom in the appraiser is to be Miss Beaumont.
The door at the top of the steps opens before I reach it. The man standing in it has a beard now, and silver at his temples, but exactly the same mouth. Four years ago in a Mykonos hotel he told me his name was Theo. My daughter is three.
He says, "Hello, Lila," like he knows me.
There is a folder in the second drawer of the gallery desk. It is my life. Every rent payment. Every preschool invoice. Every immigration filing. Four years of it, and he left it where he knew I would find it.
ADRIAN DRAKOS
I am forty-four. In this family my cousins decide, draft, guard and watch. I am the one they send in first, because words are my trade. I am the cousin who wins without anyone bleeding.
Our enemies moved on a Drakos child. I stood at that funeral and understood what loving her out loud would cost her. Bringing the mother of my daughter into this family that year would have killed them both.
So I made the decision. I kept her alive from a distance for forty-four months and let her hate me for every one of them. The rent. The school. An investigator at the end of her street. In four years, no one touched her.
The war is over now. I have come for what is mine. I will not apologize for the choices, and I would make every one of them again.
A possessive single mom second chance romance set in a dark Greek shipping dynasty. Book 4 of 5 connected standalones. Each book is a complete short read, devoured in one sitting, featuring a different couple. Each book ends in HEA.
✓ age gap (19 years) · ✓ secret baby / single mom heroine · ✓ patient hero / “I always knew” · ✓ one-night-stand consequences · ✓ silver fox billionaire · ✓ Greek dynasty · ✓ slower-burn instalove · ✓ explicit / high heat · ✓ HEA · ✓ novella
77 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 8, 2026
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