Another story featuring everlasting love with a sensual bite!

She’s the girl everyone overlooks.
He’s the man who noticed her from day one.
This winter, a company retreat becomes the spark neither of them expected.

Brandy Minton has always been the quiet one—curvy, gentle, cardigan-loving, and far too used to disappearing in crowds. As a gifted graphic designer, she keeps her head down and her workload heavy, believing that kindness and hard work will keep her afloat.

But kindness is exactly why Romeo Valastro noticed her.

Romeo—CEO, tech phenom, and dangerously controlled alpha—has spent months studying Brandy from a distance. He watches the way she helps new interns without being asked, the way she listens instead of interrupting, the way she blushes when someone compliments her work. She’s nothing like the sleek, polished women who chase him.

Brandy is warm.
Brandy is sincere.
Brandy is real.

And Romeo wants her with a hunger he can’t explain.

When the company announces a week-long winter retreat in the mountains, Romeo makes a this is his chance to finally move closer. But when he overhears a group of employees mocking Brandy’s appearance and calling her “forgettable,” the quiet interest he’s been holding onto turns feral.

The next morning, he’s at her desk with a

He wants her partnered with him for the retreat—
and he insists she let the company style team prepare her.
New wardrobe. Confidence boost. All expenses covered.
Because “she deserves it.”

Brandy tries to decline—she never asks for anything.
Romeo’s smile says he wasn’t asking.

When she steps onto the retreat shuttle in her upgraded winter wardrobe, the entire office stares. But Romeo… Romeo looks at her like he finally has what he’s been craving.

He’s protective in ways that melt her.
He’s attentive in ways that confuse her.
And every time she laughs, something wild flashes in his eyes—something that looks like possession.

Because her makeover didn’t create a new Brandy.
It just revealed the woman Romeo already adored.

And now that the mountain retreat has them in close quarters—shared cabins, team exercises, late-night firesides—Romeo is done pretending.

He wants the woman who was invisible to everyone else.
And he’ll tear down the entire retreat before he lets anyone make her feel small again.

Brandy soft, curvy Black queen.
Romeo dangerous white alpha who fell for her kindness before her beauty.

A makeover that only unveiled what he already saw.
And a company retreat that turns into the slow-burn explosion neither of them can escape.