Daeve Morgan doesn't chase power, she designs it. As the youngest CFO in a fiercely competitive cooperate empire, she's built her career on brilliance, brutal efficiency, and a smile sharp enough to draw blood. She has no time for distractions, especially not in the form of Rorik Amsterdam, the company's elusive and infamously cold CEO whose idea of affection looks suspiciously like emotional warfare. Rorik doesn't do vulnerability. Not in business, not in life, and certainly not with a woman who sees straight through him. But Daeve isn't like anyone he's ever known, clever, composed, and dangerously unbothered by his silences. She matches him stride for stride, smirk for smirk, until avoidance turns to obsession, and control starts to crack. Behind closed doors and corporate walls, secrets simmer, about ambition, loyalty, and the cost of wanting someone you're not supposed to have.

Avery's senior year is turned upside down when a kiss with her older brothers' best friend ignites a forbidden relationship tangled in danger, heartbreak, and family secrets that could destroy everything. *** "Aiden..." I shake my head, eyes fixed anywhere but the gorgeous man next to me. His hand grips my chin tightly, just enough to make me avert my eyes to his. "You know you want this as much as I fucking do. I want you to be mine. I want to be the one to hold you and kiss you the one you go to whenever you're happy or fucking sad. But let it be me, let me fucking show you that it should be me." He glares, jaw tensing. ...... ©hessaherophinelove