MS.CHRIZT
For three years, Ysha Buencamino has lived in the shadows of Timothy Lancaster’s world. As his personal assistant, she knows everything about him — his coffee must be exactly two sugars, he hates being disturbed before his morning meeting, he works late every night, and he never smiles. She knows the sound of his footsteps, the way he sighs when he is tired, the sadness in his eyes when he looks at his wedding ring. And she knows that she is falling in love with a man she can never have.
Timothy Lancaster is married. Not out of love, but out of obligation. His marriage to Sofia Velez was a business deal between two powerful families — a union that strengthened their empires but brought nothing to his heart. They live in the same house but separate lives. Cold greetings over breakfast, empty conversations, and silence that stretches through the night. He is a billionaire on paper, but a prisoner in his own life.
Ysha watches him. She sees the mask he wears — powerful, untouchable, feared by everyone — and she sees the man beneath it. Tired. Lonely. Slowly dying inside. And day by day, her heart grows heavier, because she knows something he doesn’t: she is falling in love with him, and she will have to carry that secret alone forever.
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