I swore I'd never let the job own me.
Not after clawing my way up alone, every promotion a solitary victory that left me hollow inside. Steel resolve. Unbreakable facade. That's what they see-the merger whiz who thrives in the cutthroat grind. But tonight, in this shadowed suite buzzing under dying fluorescents, his gaze pins me like prey.
He paces the glass walls, all brooding command that hides something softer, a crack in the ruthless facade begging to shatter. One glance across the desk, and my pulse hammers. Fingers meant for crisp binders trail my wrist instead, igniting skin that's starved for more than spreadsheets. We collide in the elevator's closing cage, sweat-slicked and gasping, his mouth claiming what boardrooms can't touch. Defiance surges in me, hot and reckless-pushing back against the man who could ruin everything with a word.
It's madness. Delicious, devouring madness. Every stolen caress defies the empire we've bled for, his hidden vulnerability mirroring my own buried ache for surrender. Vault steel bites my bare back as confessions spill, raw and unfiltered, his growls unraveling my professional armor. One wrong move, and my career crumbles-self-respect with it, the fragile throne we've built reduced to rubble.
Yet here I am, craving the blaze that could torch us both. How long before this forbidden hunger exposes us... or consumes me whole?
A full-length contemporary boss/employee erotic romance featuring a fiercely professional analyst craving emotional surrender and a powerful executive hiding tender obsession.
