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She didn't stay to fall in love. She stayed for revenge.Zara Cole has spent four years rebuilding everything she lost her career, her confidence, and the carefully controlled life she constructed after one man's decision derailed everything she had worked for. Now Head of Strategic Acquisitions at Crestline Energy, she is exactly where she needs to be.Then Adrian Okafor walks in as the new CEO and changes the temperature of every room he enters.He doesn't remember her. She has never forgotten him.What begins as a cold professional rivalry quickly becomes something neither of them planned for. Adrian is powerful, perceptive, and nothing like the man she prepared herself to hate. And the closer he pulls her into his orbit through late nights, high stakes deal rooms, and conversations that feel dangerously like honesty , the harder it becomes to remember why she came.But Zara isn't the only one with secrets. And Lagos doesn't let people keep theirs for long.Power. Desire. Betrayal. And the complicated truth about what it really means to win.Contains mature content including explicit scenes. 18+