Ask First: An Enemies-to-Lovers Billionaire Boss Romance

The problem with Tristan Voss isn’t that he’s a billionaire.

It’s that he thinks loving someone gives him the right to decide for them.

The day he buys the bar I run, he also becomes my boss. Now my job, my liquor license, and my little brother’s future all run through a man who believes protecting people means making their decisions for them.

The dangerous part isn’t ending up against the glass wall of his office.

It’s waking up the next morning knowing I’d do it again.

Somewhere between late nights and coffee he already knows how I take it, he starts seeing me in ways no one else ever has. One sentence underlined in a book. The cracks in my life I’ve spent years hiding—noticed, then quietly repaired without ever asking.

I should have paid attention to that last part.

Against every instinct I have, I fall in love with him.

Then I learn the truth.

While I was falling, Tristan was making decisions about my life behind my back. My paycheck. My brother’s future. Even my name on documents I never signed. Every impossible problem quietly solved—and every choice quietly taken.

He calls it protecting me.

I call it stealing the one thing I spent my whole life fighting for.

Because by the time I discover the truth...

I’ve already given my heart to the only man who’s never learned how to ask first.