Her breath hitched as his hand slid up her thigh, tracing slow, deliberate circles that made her body tremble.His voice was low — dark silk and command. “Tell me to stop, Ava.”But she didn’t. Couldn’t. The air between them burned hotter than reason.His lips brushed her ear, his breath a warning and a promise all at once.“You drive me insane,” he muttered. “And I hate that I want you this much.”When his mouth finally met hers, every boundary she’d built shattered like glass.For one reckless heartbeat, everything else disappeared — the office, the rules, the danger. It was just him and her, fire and friction, colliding in a moment neither of them was supposed to want.But want didn’t care about consequences.Because that night, in the dim light of his office, Ava Carter made the biggest mistake of her life — and Damian Stonewell, the man she swore she’d never fall for, reminded her exactly why he was called “the heartless CEO.”Weeks earlier…