Carlos Sainz had always believed relationships came with instructions.
Not literal ones, obviously...though God knew he would have appreciated a laminated handbook...but at least some kind of pattern.
A rhythm.
You flirt, you touch, you talk, you argue, you make up.
You learn each other’s tells. You compromise. You bend without breaking.
What Carlos had not expected was Max Verstappen.
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Overworked Carlos and grumpy Max team up to set up their disaster bosses and accidentally fall harder for each other instead. Between elevator cuddles, late-night takeout and very unprofessional jealousy, their fake plan turns painfully real. Two bosses matched, two assistants in love and HR pretending not to see anything.
Max Verstappen had always known two things about himself with unwavering certainty.
Everyone says Max Verstappen spoils Carlos Sainz.
1. After Bad Races, Max Looked for Carlos
Max Verstappen hated Twitter.
Carlos Sainz did not believe in magic candles.
The first time Carlos hears about the betting pool, it’s because Lando is laughing so hard he nearly drops his phone into his coffee.
Carlos, a single father, moves into a new apartment with his son, Luke, and unexpectedly runs into his college friend Max, the grumpy neighbor he hasn’t seen in years. Luke immediately decides Max should be part of their little family, dragging him into dinners, playtime. As Max spends more time with Carlos and Luke, old feelings resurface, and he slowly learns to trust love, family, and himself again. And one day, maybe it’s finally time to finish the love story they never got to start.
It starts, as most of Max Verstappen’s problems do, with media day.
Max Verstappen was many things.
Carlos Sainz had always thought Hogwarts was many things: magical, ancient, majestic, dramatically unsafe...but he did draw the line at murderous.
Argus Filch prided himself on three things:
Max and Carlos were never meant to fall in love; they were meant to fight, to burn, to rival. But one night, one touch, one kiss behind a paddock truck rewired their entire world. Years of secrets followed, hotel rooms, stolen moments, jealousy, fear, and everything they never said. Until hiding hurt more than losing, and love finally demanded to be seen. Now the world knows what Max and Carlos knew all along: some fires refuse to die.
Carlos Sainz prided himself on many things.
In 19th century setting, Max and Carlos fall in love young but are forced apart when Carlos breaks off their relationship to protect Max’s future. Years later, a decorated Navy Captain Max returns, believing Lord Carlos abandoned him, only to discover Carlos’s unanswered letters were stolen by Max’s father. After confronting the truth, they reunite, heal, marry and build a life together by the sea. Tropes: Second chances, "What letters?", Miscommunication, Angst with a happy endingg
Max Verstappen had discovered something deeply important about Carlos Sainz.
Max Verstappen building his life out of time increments: thirty-minute debriefs, two-hour simulator sessions, eight-minute media windows.
The problem started in the most undignified place possible.
Carlos Sainz had meant to send it to Lando.
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