Echelon
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Welcome to Echelon, New York's most exclusive underground club, where power is currency and silence is obedience.
Olivia Barns doesn't just command the room, she owns it. Cold, elegant, and untouchable, she's built an empire on control. But when Ben Whitlock, a brooding CEO with too many secrets and not enough restraint, walks into her world, the rules begin to blur.
He kneels. He disobeys. He flirts with danger... and with her.
What begins as dominance and submission spirals into something far more dangerous, something neither of them can name without unraveling.
In a world of shadows, trust is earned, control is worshipped, and love...
Love might be the most painful game of all.
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