I'll just have to accept it and move on. Because it's only temporary. That's the only thing I can't change. I'm temporary and that's permanently true. I close my eyes, smiling to myself, this was a dream. Better live in it as long as it lasts. I'll endluge myself then. "Ashfield, I love you." But no one's heard it. He can't and never will again, as I whispered to myself in a very small muffled voice that he can't hear. Feelings are temporary. So am I. ~~~~~~~ She's almost lost everything the day her mother died. She was a hollow box that kept working for her brother, the only thing she had left. All she did was work, work, work. He's got a past he can't ever let go. A woman he can't ever forget. He didn't live a day, he worked all the time. But his father, for some reason got them stuck in a deal they can't turn down and had somehow twisted that deal into marriage. She didn't know it until she fell. He didn't know it until it almost ended. Could they find something between them that they sought for? And what's more interesting is when the past comes back to haunt them. All Rights Reserved.

Ariel Lee has been stuck for years in a dead-end job as an assistant chef. Struggling to meet ends meet in a life of poverty while raising her young son whose father left them for another woman, their lives would soon change when she narrowly won a coveted one-year contract with a year-end prize of a million dollars to be a full-time, in-house chef for world-renowned megastar singer, Leon Waltz, whose handsome model looks and sexy dance moves have women from all over the world swooning after. Ariel's stay at his penthouse soon proves to be challenging as she unravels behind-the-scenes of Leon's true personality beneath his glamour facade - his outrageously lavish but troubled lifestyle of alcohol and women, his unpredictable outbursts, and his frequent ruthless threats to fire her each time she failed to deliver to his satisfaction. Little did both of them realise that their relationship would blossom outside the bounds of a boss and employee as they got to know each other deeper in time, where feelings develop into a forbidden territory that neither wanted to succumb to. A life-changing incident and utter confusion would soon propel Ariel to re-evaluate her entire relationship with Leon and her purpose in life, forcing her to choose - either to stay on and be with Leon or walk away from him before the end of her contract, which would mean forfeiting her prize. *Selected by Asians-in-Literature in Romance *Listed in Best Books Recommendation by @Aparna_Bhagat First Edition: 2017 Second Edition: 2022 This book is a prequel to Life Without You: https://www.wattpad.com/story/141654413-life-without-you