♦️ standalone fic (pre-canon, alternative timeline) ♦️ // Maca, a young secretary, meets a strange woman who appears as a "fixer" her boss hired to get their company out of trouble. Soon enough she finds herself stuck in the mess of both. Meanwhile Zulema, living happily her dream life with her partner in crime, bumps into an annoying, naive blonde who becomes a risk for her freedom. This is a batch repost of the whole 15 chaptered fic from AO3. Originally posted in 2021. I am not posting it chapter by chapter, but I want to have it here too. It's my controversial Hanbal/Zulema/Maca fic. But it is dear to me. :) ⚠︎ A few things to know before you start reading: • This is as canon friendly as it can get with building up their earlier life based on canon and with making them meet earlier. • Both Zulema and Maca are in relationships with men when this starts (one of them in a pretty stable one, up to one point at least), because I wanted them to have their actual, relatively functional, and entirely different lives when they meet. If you don't want to put up with this kind of side-plot this might not be for you. • This is not about the love triangle dilemma. No excessive struggling with the decision of who loves whom or who wants to stay with whom here. Those will become clear pretty quickly.