ROSETTE’S POV
I stepped out of the car without responding.
But as I rode the elevator up to my penthouse, his words echoed in my mind.
Whatever he wants… I doubt it’s anything as simple as a business partnership.
I thought of gray eyes and a voice like whiskey and sin.
“Marry me. One year. Business arrangement.”
My cheeks flushed despite myself.
I crushed the reaction ruthlessly. That wasn’t what I was considering. Marriage was absolutely off the table.
But a partnership…
I’d spent the last three days researching Giordani Enterprises between meetings and reports. The reach of his operations. The resources at his command.
The doors his alliance could open.
My father had spent fifty years treating Zavien as an enemy.
But looking at the numbers objectively, a collaboration between
