LEAP YEAR PROMISE

Khauthar is the Ice Queen of the corporate world. As the eldest of four daughters, she built an empire from the ashes of her father's betrayal. She doesn't do friends, she doesn't do trust, and she definitely doesn't do love.

Men have only ever wanted two things from her: her body or her business.

Jawad is a man with a past he's trying to bury. Once the heir to a tech dynasty, he walked away from it all when his father married the one woman who broke Jawad's heart.

Now, he's a simple waiter in a quiet restaurant, living in a one-room apartment and finding peace in the shadows.

They were never supposed to meet. But on February 29th, a day that only exists once every four years, Khauthar walks into his restaurant to celebrate her birthday-alone.

One shared cake. One whispered wish. One subconscious confession.
Jawad promised to bring her a cake every year, but Khauthar isn't used to people keeping their promises.

She decides to play with him, a temporary distraction with no feelings attached. But Jawad isn't just a waiter, and Khauthar's walls are about to meet a man who knows exactly how to code his way past her defenses.