The Unfinished Business
"I lied to save his future. Now, I have to lie to save my own."
Ten years ago, Brystol Wallen made the hardest decision of her life. On the night Asher King secured his ticket to the NFL, she discovered she was pregnant. Knowing he would drop everything-his dreams, his career, his destiny-to stay with her, she did the only thing she could: she broke his heart. She walked away, letting him believe she never loved him, and disappeared into the shadows to raise their son, Alexander, alone.
Now, Asher King is no longer the sweet, blue-eyed boy from high school. He's a retired legend, a billionaire mogul, and a man hardened by fame and bitterness. He's arrogant, cold, and drowning his past in a bottle.
When a desperate Brystol applies for an urgent assistant position to keep a roof over her nine-year-old son's head, she finds herself standing in the penthouse office of the man she never stopped loving. But he can't know who she is.
The Plan:
Use a fake name: Brittany Cole.
Keep her head down and collect the massive paycheck.
Don't let him see the resemblance between him and the boy waiting for her at home.
But Asher has a new set of rules. He's determined to put his new assistant through hell, eyeing her with a mixture of intense lust and unexplained haunting familiarity. As the tension between them reaches a breaking point, Brystol realizes that while she was busy hiding the truth, Asher was busy becoming a monster she might not be able to escape.
Will the truth set them free, or will the weight of a decade-old lie crush them both?