Spilled Red [ 18+ ]

She hired Dahlia to take care of her kids. Not to crawl under her skin, not to make her feel again, and most certainly not to fall in love with her.

Scarlett Romano, mother of two. A woman carved from ice. Cold, powerful, ruthless, and engaged to a woman who looks perfect on paper. A decision made for the sake of legacy, image, and the future of her children.

Love? That's a luxury she gave up a long time ago.

But then, Dahlia shows up like a crack in her perfect foundation. She's soft where Scarlett isn't. Bright where Scarlett is guarded. Her children have learned to adore her. And Scarlett- despite herself, begins to crave her. To need her.

But Dahlia? Dahlia is breaking. She's unraveling. Because she was never meant to belong here.

She isn't who she claims to be.

She didn't take the nanny job for the paycheck, or the kids. She took it because her father is holding her brother's life over her head. She's not a nanny, she's bait. A spy. A pawn in a game she doesn't want to play. Planted inside Scarlett's home to find weakness, to expose secrets, and burn it all from the inside out.

What she didn't expect was the warmth of the children. She didn't expect them to start feeling like hers. She didn't expect Scarlett's rare, shattering softness. And she sure of hell didn't expect to fall in love with the woman she was sent to ruin.

Now, Dahlia's caught between two impossible choices.

Between the family she's beginning to love...and the family she's so desperate to save.

And if the truth ever comes out. She won't just lose her job. It won't just break hearts.

It'll ruin everything.