THE ASSISTANT EFFECT ✨
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Genre: Lesbian Romance | CEO x Assistant | Slow Burn | Office Tension l 9 years Age Gap
She runs an empire with ice in her veins. Her new assistant runs on caffeine, chaos, and far too much heart. What happens when sunshine starts to melt steel?
Margot Blake is everything the headlines say: cold, brilliant, untouchable. The youngest CEO in luxury branding history, she built Blake & Co. from sheer ambition - and froze out anything resembling a personal life along the way.
Enter Chloe Quinn - bright, bubbly, and dangerously persistent. She's not the type of assistant Margot usually hires... or keeps. But something about Chloe's chaotic charm, awkward honesty, and maddening optimism starts to crack the ice Margot has spent years perfecting.
They're opposites in every way. One has walls higher than the skyline; the other believes no heart is too frozen to warm.
But in a world of power plays, secrets, and boardroom battles, falling for your assistant isn't just reckless - it could ruin everything.
Slow burn. High tension. Sharp suits. Stolen glances. And a love neither of them saw coming.
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