Nessa_Black
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- Parts 17
"Sleep with me." He held her gaze.
"Ethan." Her voice was pleasant. "Are you genuinely standing in your office, minutes after a board meeting, propositioning me like a line item?"
He built an empire on control. She crossed an ocean to build her own.
Ethan Hughes runs Amethyst Software the way he runs everything: with precision, authority, and zero tolerance for variables he hasn't accounted for. Anoona Zhou is the variable he didn't account for. Smart, relentless, and completely immune to intimidation, she dismantles his boardroom strategies with three weeks of corroborating data and his composure with considerably less effort.
He tells himself it's a distraction problem. She tells herself it's a power dynamic. They're both wrong, and somewhere between a locked office door and a contract Ethan drafted to contain something he couldn't name, wrong becomes the most interesting place either of them has ever been.
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