One family wedding. One ex with a new girlfriend. One perfectly reasonable solution: Fake date your best friend. Aaron agrees suspiciously fast. Maybe because pretending to be your boyfriend is easy when he's spent years wishing he actually was.
Y/N built The Ritual into a skincare empire. She did not plan for success to come with a stalkerโor a 6'4" former military bodyguard who treats her independence like a security hazard. Roman Vale has one job: keep her alive. Unfortunately, Y/N has made irritating him her favorite hobby. Between escalating threats, forced proximity, painfully slow attraction, and a professional boundary neither of them should cross, Roman's assignment is becoming dangerously personal. Because eventually, Y/N will be safe. And then he'll have to leave.
At seventeen, Damian Valentini was almost yours. Then you lost each other. He searched. You waited. Neither of you ever knew. Ten years later, Damian finally finds you againโolder, married, and still wearing the ring that made him stop looking in the first place. Your husband loves you. Damian never forgot you. And somehow, the hardest question isn't which man you love. It's whether the life you chose is still the life you want.
Sheโs the CEO. Heโs the one employee who never tells her what she wants to hear. Nolan Hayes is brilliant, infuriatingly composed, and painfully aware that wanting his boss is a terrible idea. During office hours, his boundaries are immaculate. But when the elevators stop running, the offices go dark, and theyโre the last two people still working? Professional starts getting complicated. Nothing inappropriate happens during office hours. The problem is what happens after.
Someone is watching heiress Vivienne Beaumont. Her father's solution? You. Six-foot-five, highly trained, relentlessly professionalโand now permanently at her side. You're supposed to keep Vivienne alive. She's supposed to stop noticing your hands. Neither job is getting easier.
