HOSTILE ATTRACTION: An Enemies To Lovers Workplace Mafia Romance

He doesn't fall in love. He doesn't kiss. He never keeps a woman past sunrise.

Vivian Ashford didn't come to Castellan looking for a fairy tale. She came to disappear: new city, new name, and a job as personal assistant to the one man everyone warned her about before she ever shook his hand.

Alessio Moretti runs half the city, and every rule that's kept him untouchable for twenty-nine years. Cold. Controlled. Off-limits, even to himself. His own father built a legend out of the fact that Alessio has never once let anyone close enough to want.

That's exactly why she took the job. A man who can't want her back can't hurt her either.

Then she talks back, and he doesn't fire her. She breaks down in front of him, and he doesn't use it against her. He touches her once, and twenty-nine years of rules start coming apart in his hands.

But Vivian is running from a monster of her own, the kind who taught her young that nobody believes a girl who says no. And somewhere in the empire Alessio built, his enemies have started asking questions about the assistant nobody can stop watching.

The past she buried. The empire he can't afford to lose. And a love neither of them saw coming, close enough now that there's nowhere left to run.

✔ Enemies-to-lovers

✔ Forbidden workplace romance

✔ Ruthless mafia hero, protector trope

✔ Slow burn with an earned, explosive payoff

✔ Guaranteed HEA, no cliffhanger