"Love on the Edge"
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Lucas Bennett lived in boardrooms and balance sheets - a world of precision, strategy, and control.
Emma was warmth, laughter, and every unpredictable thing he never planned for. Somehow, against all logic, they worked.
Until Claire , his assistant & most trusted employee, destroyed everything they had.
Emma had heard enough. Believed enough. And without a single raised voice or broken dish, she simply left.
The silence she left behind was deafening.
He had rebuilt failing companies. Recovered from losses that broke lesser men, but, for the first time in his life, Lucas Bennett didn't know how to fix something.
He had lost Emma
Now came the part nobody prepares you for.
Becoming someone worth coming back to.
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