pitterstonian
Content warning! 18+
A world built on love, betrayal, regret, passion, secrets, ambition, and more.
It all began with Emily, a beautiful young lawyer who journeyed far from her hometown in search of the kind of growth law firms promised so easily on paper.
But growth, she quickly learned, is a curious thing. Under what benefit did it sharpen her character, and at what cost did it begin to reshape her past? She left a place where she was loved, only to find herself in a city that did not bother to learn her name.
That was until she received an invitation to a firm she should not have been invited to at all.
Did they consult the brilliant mind behind it-the architect of the firm's standards-who had likely already decided she was not their ideal pick?
If smaller firms dismissed her as though she were not worth the effort, why would the most formidable of them all choose to retrieve what others so easily let go?
Either way, she was seated across from him.
A man whose expression suggested he had already studied everyone in the room and reached conclusions he did not feel compelled to share.
He looked like he had been carved from Calacatta marble, something only moonlight could ever dare to touch, one of nature's living embellishments.
Emily wondered-quite reasonably-whether she was even the kind of problem worth his attention.
There was only one way for her to find out whether she was interesting enough.
Because, unfortunately, she had never been particularly good at walking away from opportunities that looked like they might ruin her in an interesting way.