after hours.

Kaia doesn't mix business with pleasure - not after her ex, not with her job on the line, and definitely not with Cal, the quiet, brooding coworker she's spent months avoiding. He's too intense. Too unreadable. Too easy to imagine pressed up against her in the back office.

But when her car dies one late night, it's Cal who offers her a ride. And something shifts.

Underneath the silence, he's all smoldering tension and barely contained heat - a gentleman with a dark edge, who looks at her like no one ever has. What starts as a one-time favor turns into stolen glances, lingering touches, and dangerously close proximity after hours.

The attraction is undeniable. The rule though, is very clear: no workplace relationships.
But when the fabric of their clothes brush, when he whispers her name like a secret - Kaia stops caring about rules. She's never been taken care of like this. Never been wanted like that.

He's hiding something. So is she. But the real danger?
Is how good it feels to break the rules with him.

A forbidden office romance with slow-burn tension, high heat, and a possessive coworker who when it comes down to it, does not play when it comes to the woman he wants.