Dancing With Danger

He was supposed to be the distraction.
He became the danger she chose.

Lacy Whispertyne never meant to fall for either of them.

When Jacob Steven - quiet, wounded, fighting a brutal divorce - begins stealing one-o'clock lunches in the TechQuest canteen, Lacy tells herself it's harmless. Just coffee. Just conversation. Just comfort.

Until Jacob's ex-wife starts watching.

To protect Lacy from the fallout, Jacob's best friend steps in.

Dominic Smithton.
Six-foot-four. Tattooed. Controlled. Dangerous in ways that don't shout - they smoulder.

The plan is simple: make it look like Lacy is with Dominic. Shift the rumours. Calm the storm.

It's only pretend.

Until it isn't.

Because Dominic doesn't fake anything halfway.
Not protection.
Not loyalty.
And definitely not desire.

What begins as a decoy turns into something neither of them planned - something fierce, consuming, and impossible to walk away from.

But secrets fracture friendships.
Jealousy burns slow and patient.
And when the past refuses to stay buried, someone is bound to get hurt.

In love, as in war, you don't always choose the safe option.

Sometimes...

You choose the danger.