“I promise to protect you at all costs Ti, just let me in” It was another night in a house that had long forgotten peace — her father's voice sharp with anger, her mother’s sobs fading into the walls. Tiana Vance had grown used to breaking before the morning came. When she finally escaped to New York, she wasn't looking for love — just a chance to breathe again. Her best friend’s offer led her to a job at Harrison Enterprises, one of the city’s most powerful firms. She didn't expect her new boss to be Gabriel Harrison, the nonchalant, cold, brilliant CEO whose presence could silence a room. He was everything she’d promised herself to avoid — distant, controlled, untouchable. But the more she worked beside him, the more she saw the cracks behind his perfection: the loneliness, the silence the familiar kind of pain. They were two people who had forgotten how to feel — until each other. But love has a way of unearthing what’s been buried deep, and for Tiana and Gabriel, falling for each other might be the most dangerous truth of all.