Sugar, Don't Tempt Me
Anna is just trying to survive.
At twenty-one, she’s juggling rent, tips, and the kind of loneliness that sits heavy. Working nights at a downtown bar wasn’t part of the dream — but it pays enough to keep her future from collapsing.
Then Lucas Cruz walks in.
A 26-year-old agent with a body built for trouble and a bank account built for temptation, Lucas isn’t the type of man who notices girls like her. He’s controlled, silent, unreadable. The kind of rich that buys privacy instead of attention.
So when he catches her crying in the back room and murmurs, “You’re beautiful when you cry, Darling,” Anna knows her life just split into a before and after.
What starts as an agreement — money for comfort, company, and a distraction from the chaos of his job — slowly turns into something neither of them planned for.
He spoils her.
He protects her.
He hides too much from her.
And the more Anna steps into his world of secrets, danger, and late-night missions, the harder it becomes to tell whether he wants her… or needs her.
When enemies surface and Lucas’s past drags them both into a game built on lies, Anna has to choose:
walk away while she still can,
or stay and risk becoming the one weakness a man like him can’t afford.
Because sugar can feel sweet —
but obsession tastes sweeter.