
He was born to inherit. He was hired to assist. Neither expected to unravel. Benjamin Astor-Black is the golden heir to a legacy he never asked for-measured, obedient, and already promised to a woman he barely knows. With the clock ticking on his arranged future, he's assigned one final project before taking his rightful place at the head of the family empire: lead a groundbreaking innovation team to secure the Astor-Black name for a new generation. Elliott Callahan is not impressed by pedigrees or power. Sharp-tongued, fiercely competent, and burned one too many times by men who only wanted him in secret, he's not here to babysit a rich boy with soft hands. He's here to build something that lasts. When the two are forced to work side by side, what begins as mutual irritation quickly sparks into something deeper-raw tension, unsaid truths, and a fire neither of them are ready to name. But as secrets surface and expectations close in, Benjamin must decide: does he want the life he was born to live-or the man who makes him feel alive? In a world ruled by legacy, love was never part of the blueprint.All Rights Reserved
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