Eros Velazquez

Nobody looks at the girl who cleans the windows on the 27th floor of the Miralux skyscraper. Nobody knows her name. Nobody remembers her face.

Except him

With her messy ponytail and worn knees, she was another invisible woman in a city that never sleeps. Until she accidentally broke a twenty-thousand-dollar vase... right in the office of the most feared man in the country.

"Do you know how many people lose their future for less than that?" said Eros Velázquez, CEO of the Velacruz Group, in a voice as cold as marble.

He was young, powerful, and cruel. His name made politicians and bankers tremble. Ariadne knelt.

I have no way to pay for it… but I'll do whatever it takes

He looked at her like someone evaluating a rare piece. Then he smiled. Slow. Dangerous.

-Whatever?

He didn't call the police. He handed them a contract.

I'd be his personal assistant for six months. No excuses. No questions. No emotions. In exchange, he'd forget about the debt.

She thought she'd be his slave. But what Eros demanded was… strange.

Choose my tie. Try my coffee first. Read to me before I sleep, even if I don't sleep. Join me for dinners, but don't talk to anyone.

And then there were her rules: no crying, no getting sick, no falling in love.

She wrote them down. And accidentally tore each one up.

One night she found him asleep among papers. He had a fever. When she touched his forehead, he took her hand.

"Don't call me that. Not you," he whispered.

And she remembered him. The boy from the orphanage. The one who gave her chocolate. The one who disappeared one night without saying goodbye.

—You were…

"Don't stir up what I buried," he said, but his eyes were trembling.

At a gala, she shone like never before. He dressed her like a queen. The looks were sharp. Murmurs, mockery. Then a tall, elegant woman appeared. Are you coming with me, Eros, or with your pet? He didn't say anything. He didn't deny anything. He just let her go. That night, she disappeared. She left no note. She never came back. He stopped the world to find her. He canceled flights, bribed control towers, dragged half the world along. And he found her. Sitting on a bench, alone.

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