Bryan Jones lives by structure tight schedules, clean lines, no surprises. His world runs on control, from the gleaming order of his penthouse to the long nights spent chasing perfection. He doesn’t do chaos. Or closeness. Until his best friend Harvey decides to give him a birthday gift he can’t prepare for.
When the door opens, everything shifts. Ella Mayor stands there confident, poised, and nothing like the dancer he expected. One night meant to entertain becomes something harder to define. The more she challenges his distance, the more he feels the ground move beneath his certainty.
Ella has her own rule: never fall for a client. But Bryan isn’t what she imagined. There’s quiet strength in the way he listens, and a flicker of honesty behind his control that she can’t look away from.
Two people built on restraint. Two hearts learning what freedom feels like.
But can something real grow from a night that was never supposed to mean anything?
