CALCULATED RUIN

BY OLUWAPELUMI EMMANUEL

They said working for Maxwell Churco was a ticket to the top.
They didn't mention it could also be a one-way path to destruction.
Maxwell Churco billionaire, CEO of Churco Global, and the man who ruled New York's elite with an iron fist. Cold, terrifyingly strategic, and ruthlessly intelligent, he built his empire on precision and guarded it with paranoia. His rules were non-negotiable: no mistakes, no personal lives, no weaknesses.
Elara Vance never planned to break them.
She was just an executive assistant sharp, driven, and desperate to rebuild her life after tragedy left her with nothing but crushing debt. But one shared moment of high-stakes corporate warfare broke her resolve. One secret night of forbidden passion shattered the professional wall between them. And one impossible connection threatened to burn down the carefully constructed lives they both fought to maintain.
In a world where power is the only currency, and emotional attachment is leverage, Elara and Maxwell are forced into a truth neither can escape that sometimes, the heart demands what the mind knows will destroy it.
But when ambition meets compulsion, when desire becomes dominance, and when the shadows of their pasts finally collide...
love isn't a lifeline; it's the ultimate poison.
Because not every love story was written to last forever some were written for A Calculated Ruin.