The Hard-Coded Devotion

The Hard-Coded Devotion

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The Syndicate of Hearts Series book #5 At twenty, Christian Joseph Aquino was an orphan left to face the corporate vultures alone. Instead of just inheriting a legacy, he built one from the asphalt up, engineering High-Ground into a multi-million peso tech empire through cold execution and absolute isolation. His system was flawless, his firewall impenetrable. He didn't do distractions. Until he crossed paths with nineteen-year-old Jia Marie Alcantara. A breathless, chaotic nursing freshman barely surviving her clinical rotations, Jia was a soft, brilliant variable he never saw coming. Recognizing the fragile beauty of her world, Ceejay made a ruthless tactical calculation: he stayed on the sidelines. For five agonizing years, he anchored himself in the shadows, choking back his own possessive nature to let her finish her baseline safely within his protective perimeter. But the exact millisecond Jia stepped across the graduation stage, the restraint subroutines failed. Before she can even clear her board exams or secure her clinical license, Ceejay initializes the final deployment. The corporate warlord's walls crumble completely as he pulls her straight into his high-voltage, hyper-luxurious orbit. The simulation is over, the countdown has hit zero, and Christian Joseph Aquino is finally claiming the only asset he ever truly wanted.
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