Taken to Protect: An Age Gap Forbidden Love

On the night a storm swept across the valley, her life changed forever. Alone on the farm her family had left behind, she opened her door to a stranger-a man carved from silence and shadows, who chose to stay when the world said he would leave. She never asked for protection, yet he gave it without question. She never asked for promises, yet he spoke them with a weight that unsettled her heart. With every passing day, the quiet between them deepened into something neither dared to name.
The town whispered. Her uncle threatened. And the walls of the farmhouse became both a refuge and a cage, holding a secret that could not remain hidden forever. She told herself she could not fall. The difference between them was too vast, the risk too dangerous, the bond too forbidden. Yet the truth pressed against her with every stolen glance, every word left unsaid, every shadow he refused to let touch her.
When loyalty is tested and the past demands its due, she must decide if love born in silence can withstand the storm-or if the very man who promised to protect her will be the one to break her heart.