He knows her coffee order. Her dentist appointments. The strand of hair that never stays clipped.
He's known for ten years.
Zara Chen counts ceiling tiles in waiting rooms and rates handshakes on a scale of one to five. She eats dinner standing at the kitchen island because sitting at the table for one feels like admitting something. She is, by every metric she tracks, the kind of person people look past on their way to someone else.
Then she becomes executive assistant to Kieran Black — billionaire, tech CEO, and a man who pours her coffee exactly how she drinks it on her first day. Before she tells anyone her order.
He knows when she eats. Where she sleeps. Why she cried last Tuesday.
She has never told him any of this.
The job wasn't luck. The apartment wasn't a steal. The ex-boyfriend who left — he didn't leave on his own. Every coincidence in Zara's life has a blueprint, and the architect has been sitting across the hall for three weeks, watching her through glass walls with the patience of a man who has already waited a decade.
When she finds the room behind his bookshelf — the cameras, the journals, the years of meticulous documentation — she should run.
She doesn't.
She looks directly into the lens. And she doesn't look away.
What she does next will keep you up past 3 AM. Don't say I didn't warn you.
ZERO DISTANCE is a dark standalone romance featuring a surveillance-obsessed billionaire, an FMC who refuses to be a victim, and the kind of tension that makes you forget to breathe. Explicit content. Morally grey everything. HFN ending.