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Chioma Alugwo
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HER BOSS,HIS DESIRE

HER BOSS,HIS DESIRE

Serena Hart never imagined that one job could change her entire life. After losing her parents, Serena spends every day struggling to take care of her younger sister while trying to survive in New York. Love is the last thing on her mind. She has no time for heartbreak, no space for distractions, and definitely no interest in getting involved with rich men. Then she gets hired as a nanny for Kael Vale’s daughter. Kael Vale is everything people fear and desire — a billionaire, powerful CEO, and widowed single father known for his cold heart and emotionless personality. Since losing his wife two years ago, he has shut the world out completely, dedicating his life only to his daughter, Lia. But the moment Serena walks into Vale Manor, something begins to change. Lia, who hasn’t smiled in years, instantly grows attached to her. The quiet warmth Serena brings into the mansion slowly breaks through the walls Kael spent years building around himself. What starts as simple attraction soon becomes something far more dangerous. Because Kael cannot stay away from her. And Serena is terrified of falling for a man who carries so much pain behind his eyes. As emotions deepen, jealousy, gossip, past grief, and forbidden desire threaten to pull them apart. Serena knows loving Kael could destroy the peaceful life she fought so hard to build for herself and her sister. But Kael has already made up his mind. He wants her. And for the first time in years, he is willing to fight for love again.
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Chapter: Chapter Four_Boundaries
Serena woke up the next morning already regretting the way her heart reacted around Kael Vale.It annoyed her.She was twenty-four years old, not some teenager getting nervous because a handsome man looked at her for too long. Yet ever since the storm, something had changed between them, and pretending she didn’t feel it was becoming harder.The worst part was that Kael barely did anything, he wasn’t flirting with her ,he wasn’t touching her.he wasn’t saying inappropriate things.It was the quietness between them that kept throwing her off. The eye contact that lasted a second too long.The way his voice softened around her sometimes. The way he watched her with Lia like he was seeing something he hadn’t realized he missed.Serena hated how much she noticed all of it. Which was exactly why she decided to avoid him.Not obviously of course.She simply timed things differently. If Kael usually had breakfast at eight, she took Lia to the garden earlier. If he worked in the library, Seren
Last Updated: 2026-05-28
Chapter: Chapter Five_Kael
Kael realized Serena was avoiding him sometime around Tuesday morning.Not because she said anything but how she talked less around him.That was how he noticed.The woman had a habit of filling silence without trying. She argued with Lia over vegetables, complained about the coffee being too strong, laughed too loudly at Mrs. Rowan’s jokes. The house had gotten used to her voice quickly.Now every time Kael walked into a room, she suddenly became busy.Busy helping Lia upstairs ,busy folding laundry, busy doing absolutely anything that required distance from him.At first he ignored it. Then it started getting under his skin which irritated him even more.Because this should not have mattered.He had met hundreds of women in his life. Beautiful women. Smart women. Women who practically threw themselves at him because of his name or money or face or whatever else people saw when they looked at Kael Vale.None of them stayed in his head like this. None of them made him notice when they
Last Updated: 2026-05-28
Chapter: Chapter Three_Storm Night
By the end of the week, Serena had started getting used to the mansion. Not the size of it. She was pretty sure nobody could ever fully get used to living somewhere with three staircases and a dining room bigger than her entire apartment. But she was getting used to the feeling of it of the house. Vale Manor was beautiful, but it carried a kind of quiet that never really felt peaceful. It felt like the house was holding its breath all the time.Especially at night when Kael was home ,Serena noticed it most during dinner. The way Kael sat at the far end while Lia sat closer to Serena instead. The first night she noticed it, she thought maybe he just liked space. By the third night, she realized something else.The man genuinely did not know how to be around people anymore but not in a normal way. He was just distant.Like every conversation cost him energy. Still… there were moments. Small moments Serena kept catching herself thinking about later.Like how he always thanked the kitc
Last Updated: 2026-05-28
Chapter: Chapter Two _Rules
Serena barely slept that night. Not because of the job itself.But because every time she closed her eyes, she kept seeing Mr vale watching her across that office. It was ridiculous.She didn’t even know the man. Yet something about Kael Vale stayed in her head long after she left the mansion.And she can't quite place a finger on it. Serena turned over in bed and groaned softly into her pillow.“Please tell me you’re not awake stressing over those rich people again.” Serena lifted her head slightly to see Mira leaning against the bedroom doorway with crossed arms.She was looking sleepy.“You should be asleep,” Serena muttered.“And you should stop overthinking.”Mira walked into the room and dropped onto the bed beside her.“So?” she asked immediately. “How rich are we talking?”Serena laughed tiredly. “Mira—”“No seriously. Like normal rich? Or private-island rich?”Serena thought about the mansion.“The floors looked expensive enough to pay our rent for five years.”Mira sat up i
Last Updated: 2026-05-28
Chapter: Chapter One_The Interview
Serena was late.Unfortunately for her , the universe did not seem to care.“Please hold on!” she cried out breathlessly as the elevator doors began to close.A man inside pressed the button without looking at her once.“Thanks,” Serena murmured, stepping in quickly while trying to catch her breath.Rainwater clung to the sleeves of her coat. Her curls were slightly wet, and the cheap heels she had borrowed from Pamela were already beginning to hurt her feet so much. Exactly how someone should look while going to an interview at a big place. The elevator was quiet except for the soft hum of movement and droplets from her hair. Serena fixed her attention on the glowing numbers above the door and tried not to think about the message her landlord had sent her that morning."PAY BEFORE FRIDAY OR LEAVE".It was really bad. She needed this job.Not because she dreamed of working in some luxurious place. Not because rich people fascinated her. But because Mira needed school supplies. Becaus
Last Updated: 2026-05-28
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