holaathisissam
Some people walk into your life at the wrong time. Some walk out before you even get the chance. And some - the ones you least expect - come back.
Elena Smith had a rule: never let a stranger's opinion of you matter.
She almost kept it. Until a stranger outside a cafe - drunk, self righteous, and completely convinced he had her figured out - got under her skin in a way she couldn't shake.
She thought she was done with him after that. People like Michael Grayson were easy to hate and easier to forget.
Except five years later, she's standing in her new office, shaking hands with her new boss - and it's him. Same eyes. Same jaw. Same insufferable confidence.
Only now he signs her paychecks.
And somehow, somewhere between the tension and the late nights and the arguments that go on longer than they should - hating him is starting to feel like the hardest thing she's ever done.
He was supposed to stay the enemy.
That was the plan.
She should have known better than to make plans around Michael Grayson.