Break Room Romance

<p><strong>She swore she'd never fall for someone at work again... until the ceiling started leaking and the only person who saw her break was him.</strong></p><p>Sloane has spent years teaching herself that survival at work means staying late staying quiet and staying small. In her last job one office romance turned into a rumour that nearly ended her career. Now she has a new role a new city and a strict rule: never ever let her heart get tangled with anyone who knows her corporate email address.</p><p>Then one exhausted night the break-room ceiling starts leaking her carefully controlled façade finally cracks and a colleague walks in at exactly the wrong moment.</p><p>Miles sees what no one else at the firm has noticed: the woman holding the Larkin account together is running on fumes. He has his own history of caring too much in places that rewarded apathy but he's not interested in being anyone's saviour. What he wants is simple and terrifying: honesty at work and in love. When Sloane lets herself lean on him for a minute under the stained ceiling neither of them expects that moment to change everything.</p><p>As they build a bold honest plan for a demanding client Sloane and Miles start to build something quieter and more fragile between them. But old patterns die hard. Anonymous concerns office gossip and her own memories of HR gone wrong quickly turn their relationship into a test she never thought she'd sit again. This time though she has a manager who backs her a HR lead who believes people over optics and a man who refuses to let whispers write the story of her life.</p><p>Break Room Romance is a slow-burn closed-door office love story about healing from workplace trauma drawing boundaries without losing your career and choosing not to shrink just to keep other people comfortable. If you've ever stayed too late at your desk flinched at your name in an email subject line or wondered if it's possible to have both a job you care about and a love that feels safe Sloane and Miles will feel like coming home.</p><p> </p>