He told me it was a mistake.He said it once …. then reached for me again.Nadia Cole has spent her life in the shadow of two powerful men; her father, oil magnate Douglas Cole, and his closest friend, billionaire CEO Callum Pierce.Callum is twenty years older. Controlled. Untouchable.The kind of man who builds empires in silence.He’s also three months away from marrying a woman chosen for him.He is her father’s best friend.And he is the worst decision Nadia has ever made.What starts as one stolen night turns into a double life neither of them can stop; hidden rooms, quiet lies, and a relationship that exists only behind closed doors. No promises. No future. Just Callum… and the feeling of being chosen, until she realizes she isn’t.Because being someone’s secret is not the same as being someone’s choice.And secrets don’t stay buried.Not when the man who trusted them both is the one they’re betraying.When Douglas finds out, everything fractures; loyalty, family, and whatever Callum and Nadia thought they were building. He’s still getting married. Her father is furious. And Callum… says nothing at all.She thought she was his secret.She never expected to become his scandal.

I was hired to protect his reputation. Not destroy my own.Reagan Cole doesn't make mistakes. Eleven years in Washington D.C. as the city's most ruthless crisis strategist and her record is spotless. Her rules are simple. Her boundaries are iron. And the one line she has never crossed, not once, not for anyone, is getting personally involved with a client.Then came Senator Sebastian Vance.Cold. Controlled. Devastatingly unreadable. A man with a powerful wife, a carefully constructed image, and a conspiracy buried beneath his career that runs deeper and darker than anything Reagan has ever walked into. She was hired to save him. She wasn't supposed to fall for him. And he was never supposed to look at her like she was the one thing in his very precise life he hadn't planned for.But he did.And now everything is unraveling, the case, the conspiracy, the careful distance she has kept between herself and the one man she should never have wanted.The question was never whether Reagan could fix Sebastian Vance's life.‘The question is whether she'll survive getting that close to it.’---