You spend all your life dreaming of that one true love and then you find it and you canโt have it. How fair is that?
38-year-old billionaire Xavier Ballantine, โXโ for his friends, has dedicated his entire existence to duty: duty to his familyโs business, to his dear ones, to an ex-wife he married just to do the right thing and then to his two beloved motherless twin daughters, his sole responsibility since their birth and also his only joy in a dull life that used to have no space for smiles.
And then there she was and suddenly he wanted things. Wanted her.
Soft and beautiful inside and out, the light to eclipse all others, his one true love, she was his from the first moment he spotted her over a year ago, but they donโt belong together.
Sheโs too young for him, too full of life, too joyful and he has an emotional baggage not even his private jetโs hold could carry.
He could never have her. Or could he?
24-year-old Cleo Morris hasnโt had it easy, but nothing has ever been able to snuff out her light; she just needed a kitchen and time to create and she could forget about anything and everything that ever hurt her, until she met the one person she couldnโt look away from, the one man that now is never far from her heart and mind: her first and only true love.
Serious, no-nonsense and take-charge in all aspects of his life, X is a CEO in and out of his office and looks after everyone he feels responsible for, including her .
She feels safe with him, protected.
Under his gaze, the pain of the loss of her dear yaya and the years of scorn and undermining she had to endure because of her curvy physique and her desire to be a chef just disappear.
Thereโs only one teensy tiny problem: he is her boss and they donโt belong together.
X is older than her, heโs refined and classy and they donโt share much, aside from their love of food and their partly Greek background.
She could never have him. Or could she?
Leap day is fast approaching and someone is about to jump straight into love, with both feet and without looking.