Ceo- Stories

The one thing Anika Cossgrove, a common barista, and Devon Sterling, the magazine-cover CEO, have in common? Simple: they need each other. But they don't seem to know it until fate spins a cruel web, plunging the two together under the guise of an accident. Thus forms the contract. The terms are rather simple, and the deadline? Precise. One needs the money, and the other wants the inheritance sealed behind the clause of marriage. ...... .. A year and a half. No more, no less. Then they will part like strangers, having benefited from one another and carried out a successful public facade. But alas, fate truly is the best of players in the game called 'life'. Everything starts falling apart when feelings get involved. The clean contract begins to muddy, and uncertainty swirls into a pot of lies and deception, forming a storm of heartbreak, betrayal, and regret. ...... Follow their journey and discover if worlds built on deceitful foundations can truly survive the collision of true feelings...

She's spent eight years in a cage. He's the one man who could break her free-or break her completely. Emma Clarke has survived eight years with a man who tracks her phone, controls her money, and reminds her with his fists what happens when she forgets her place. She's brilliant, capable, invisible-exactly how she needs to be to keep herself and her daughter safe. Until her boss notices the bruises. Ethan Cross has spent three years buried in grief and guilt over his wife's death. He doesn't let people close. Doesn't risk caring. Keeps his world controlled and his heart locked down. Until his assistant tries to run-and her husband drags her back. When Ethan throws a violent man through a window to protect her, everything changes. Emma and her daughter move into his house. What starts as a sanctuary becomes something neither of them planned for. Something that feels dangerously like hope. But Emma's husband has brothers. A whole motorcycle club of them. And men like that don't let go of what they think they own. Some escapes require more than courage. Some require a man willing to stand between you and hell itself. Unguarded - Contemporary romance with suspense elements. Protective hero. Abuse survivor heroine. Found family. Motorcycle gang threat. HEA guaranteed. CW: Domestic violence (on page), child in danger (protected), motorcycle gang violence