Intro. For eighteen years, [Your Name] was a ghost in the Coleman estate. As the daughter of the head maid, she grew up in the quiet corners of the servants' quarters, a girl who learned to be invisible before she learned to read. Her only escape was her books and the scholarship provided by the enigmatic CEO, Atreus Coleman—the man whose house she lived in, but whose world she was never meant to touch.
Now a graduate, she is the "secretary of the secretary," a low-level assistant buried in files and late-night reports. To her, Alaric is the distant, dangerous star she’s loved from afar—a man who surely doesn't know she exists. But Alaric has been watching. From the balcony of his study to the security feeds of the office, he has spent years tracking the girl who thinks she’s a shadow. He didn't give her a scholarship to be generous; he did it to ensure she would never leave his reach.