The Devil's Temptation

Hyeon had envisioned a quiet, uneventful Christmas—a cozy couch, his cat nestled at his side, and nothing more demanding than the television. Yet when the company holiday party arrives, he makes a rare exception to his plans, hoping the festive evening might finally give him a chance to catch the attention of Alek, the devastatingly handsome coworker he has quietly admired from afar. The night spirals far beyond his intentions. After one drink too many, Hyeon embarrasses himself spectacularly before his memory gives way to total darkness. He wakes the following morning to a Christmas catastrophe he never could have predicted: lying beside him without a stitch of clothing is Ivan Mariani, the colleague he has despised with every fiber of his being. But something has inexplicably shifted. The man Hyeon has always found insufferable now appears strikingly different—his scent strangely intoxicating, his presence charged with an irresistible magnetism Hyeon struggles to ignore. What exactly happened that night, and why does the one coworker he cannot stand suddenly seem impossible to resist?