COLD HEART

VERENA

I didn't want to leave Madrid.

But when my father orders something, there's no arguing. This time, it's not another weekend business trip or boring gala-it's New York, where I'm supposed to train under Kaemon Golding, the CEO of Golding Corporation and the son of my father's old friend.

The moment I meet him, I know I'm right: Kaemon Golding is everything I can't stand in a man. Arrogant, flashy, and fully aware of his power. Worse, my father's brilliant idea is for me to serve as his personal secretary. Neither of us loves the arrangement, but refusal isn't an option.

My father says it's preparation for running Martinez Groups one day, but it feels like a test of my patience.

From the start, Kaemon and I clash. Every order he throws at me turns into a challenge, every conversation, a battlefield. He bites, I bite back harder. Watching his perfect jaw clench when I stand my ground is oddly satisfying.

But beneath the rage, there's something else. Something electric. Dangerous. Even if I refuse to admit it, it's there, crackling in every heated glare and every too-close encounter.

And the worst part is the more I hate him, the more I can't ignore it.

KAEMON

Training the future CEO of Martinez Groups was never in my plans. Especially not when that CEO turns out to be Verena Martinez-a woman with a sharp tongue, a spine of steel, and a body that's all I can think about after one meeting.

This girl's attitude matches her pedigree-spoiled, stubborn, and dead set on making my life hell. But there's something else under that defiance, a fire I'd be stupid to ignore. It's no secret she can't stand me, but that tension between us is as addictive as sin.

So, sure, I'll train her. I'll push her to the limits she doesn't even know she has. And I'll try like hell to resist her. But if she thinks I'm letting her get the last word? She doesn't know me nearly as well as she thinks.