First Love
Aabriell Mian built her life with careful precision - elegant, self-sufficient, and wholly in control. Owning a successful café and living in a penthouse overlooking the city, she's perfectly content. Love? Optional. Marriage? Never. After all, she'd learned early that giving your heart away meant surrendering the safety of solitude. And that was something she never intended to do.
Damian Ainsley doesn't believe in forcing fate - but when fate brings him back into Aabriell's orbit years after a university encounter that never quite left his heart, he knows he can't let her slip away again. Charming, patient, and steady where she is sharp, Damian sees through Aabriell's walls - not to break them down, but to stand quietly beside them until she's ready to open the door.
As they slowly begin to navigate a partnership - first through a shared café project and then through something far more personal - Aabriell is forced to confront the vulnerability she's always avoided. Their relationship isn't a whirlwind. It's deliberate. Intimate. Real. And when love asks her to stay, to build, to let go of fear, Aabriell will have to decide if she can trust herself to say yes.