She smiles for a living. Behind lace aprons and soft laughter, Aria serves strangers their comfort—never showing the weight she carries or the storms that sometimes whisper through her poetic mind. She’s quiet, kind, and sharper than she looks. Life taught her to obey with grace… and fight back when no one’s watching.Then he walked in.A man too perfect, too still. With eyes that seem to hold centuries and a presence that chills the air around him, he claims no interest in emotions—or her. Cold, unreadable, and utterly impossible to ignore, he’s the kind of stranger mothers warn their daughters about. The kind who doesn’t belong in cafés lit by fairy lights and warm smiles.But something in him calls to something buried in her.And some truths... don’t stay buried forever.