He was never supposed to matter.
Just one night.
One mistake I didn’t plan to repeat.
I left before morning.
Before it could become anything more.
Seven years later, I walk into Crossridge and find Declan Ward sitting at the table like nothing ever happened. Like that night didn’t change everything.
He doesn’t know what I took with me when I left.
And I’m not here to tell him.
I’m here to close a deal.
To prove I don’t need anything from him; his money, his power, or the way he still knows exactly how to get under my skin.
But being this close again?
That’s the real mistake.
Because it’s not the past that threatens everything…
It’s what I’ve been keeping from him.
A slow-burn, character-driven billionaire romance where trust is harder to build than desire.
