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Five years lost. Five years remade in blood and fire.
When Oliver Queen returns to Starling City, he's not the careless billionaire who vanished-he's colder, sharper, definitely hotter than before, and built entirely from secrets, scars, and sins he'll never confess.
By day, he wears a suit and a smile, playing the role of the polished CEO.
By night, he becomes something else-something dangerous, something the city fears.
He thought he could keep both worlds separate.
Until she walked into his office.
His sister's best friend
The girl who used to make him laugh when nothing else could.
Now a woman with eyes that see too much, and a voice that makes his resolve crumble.
Now his new assistant.
She's smart, confident, and entirely off-limits.
Too young. Too close. Too dangerous.
But one look, and the air between them shifts-too hot, too heavy, too impossible to ignore.
Every meeting lingers too long. Every word is a challenge.
Every touch, a mistake waiting to happen.
And when the nights turn quiet and she says his name like it's something forbidden,
he stops remembering why he's supposed to stay away.
He tells himself he's protecting her-from his world, from his enemies, from himself.
But the truth is simpler.
He can't stop wanting her.
In the city he's sworn to save, she's the one thing he's willing to sin for.
And in the shadows, temptation doesn't just ruin you-it consumes you