Clouds hung low over the city that evening. Inside a luxurious hotel suite on the twenty-first floor, Selena sat on the couch with her laptop open on her lap. The screen displayed information about Adrian Morgan’s company—a name that had refused to leave her thoughts these past few days.
It had been two days since their meeting at the café. Since Adrian made that sweet-sounding but cryptic offer. To be the face of his new company? Ten percent ownership from the start? That wasn’t a casual proposition.
Selena moved the mouse, scrolling through Adrian’s portfolio. Morgan Capital Holdings. A few large projects had indeed been successful. But there were also legal cases in the past that had briefly dragged his company’s name into the spotlight—not proven, true, but enough to stir her suspici
