Chloe Goldstein remembered the first time she met Killian Stone like it was yesterday.
She had just turned twenty, fresh out of college, dating Jamie Holland, the son of a well-known New York politician. Life was fast, polished, and perfectly predictable.
Then came the trip to Los Angeles with her father, Richard Goldstein, for a high-stakes business meeting with Mark Stone. Her father had insisted she come along, saying, “You’ll be meeting the Stone heir. Might as well get to know the future before it arrives.”
At first, she’d rolled her eyes. She wasn’t in the mood to play the elegant daughter. But when she stepped into the Stone estate and saw Killian - tall, striking, confident without trying - something shifted. It wasn’t just his looks, though those helped; it was the gravity he
