Rule #1: Never fall for your family’s enemy.
Rule #2: Especially if he’s the man you could never forget.
Returning home was meant to be a business transaction—marry the playboy, secure my shares, and build my own empire away from my father’s shadow. I didn’t account for Adrian Cross.
Fifteen years older, infinitely more dangerous, and my father’s ultimate rival. The world sees a cutthroat billionaire. I see the Daddy who once cherished me in the dark, only to let me go at dawn. Our past is a wound I swore would never reopen.
I was determined to keep my distance. But the self-possessed empire I once knew is gone. In his place is a man who refuses to let me go.
His warning is a dark promise against my skin: “Don’t test me, kitten. No one walks away from me twice.”
My mind screams he’s forbidden. My body remembers its master. And my heart… my traitorous heart still beats only for him.
This isn't just a rivalry. It’s a reckoning. And I swore not to submit. May I?
