He demanded order. She was pure chaos. And she was exactly what he needed.

Silas Vane doesn't do messes. As the city's most sought-after tattoo artist and a single dad to a precocious six-year-old, his life is a perfectly calibrated machine. He lives by a strict code: Control. Routine. Silence.

He definitely doesn't have time for the disaster living next door.

Lily is a whirlwind of color and noise—an artist struggling to find her footing and currently failing at "adulting." She's everything Silas avoids. She's loud, she's disorganized, and she's driving him insane.

But when Silas's nanny quits without notice, he's left with no choice but to hire the one woman who threatens to undo his carefully constructed world.

It was supposed to be strictly professional. But late nights in the quiet house reveal a hunger in Silas that order can't satisfy. He sees Lily's need for direction, and she sees the protective, possessive man beneath the ink and scowls.

When the lines between boss and employee blur, Silas has to decide if he's willing to let go of his control to claim the one thing he can't command.

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