For Inthira, a crisis communications executive specializing in corporate image management, everything in life must remain under her absolute control. The maddening pressure of her grueling workload has only one outlet: a purely physical relationship with zero strings attached.
For nearly a year, Rinrada—a younger woodworker born with unique anatomy—has been the person she chose to use. Because the younger woman is accommodating, polite, and never intrudes upon her private life, Inthira has always believed that money and clear-cut terms could keep the dividing line of their arrangement drawn forever.
Yet on a night when a storm of emotions rages out of control, right at the moment their passion is hurtling toward its peak, the person who had always submitted suddenly halts all movement. Pinning her down against the mattress, the younger woman delivers an ultimatum that shatters her pride completely:
"If you want me to keep going... tomorrow, what we have will no longer be just an outlet for you, Ice."
When physical need corners her into nodding her assent to those terms, the power she once held in the palm of her hand flips upside down. The dust-covered carpenter she once pushed away begins infiltrating her real life one step at a time, forcing the cold-hearted working woman to choose between guarding her defensive armor or surrendering and letting the person she once overlooked become her true home.