She wasn't supposed to want him. He was her boss's rival, the one man in the boardroom who looked at her like she was already his. One reckless night was supposed to be a mistake she'd never repeat - a stranger's hands, a stranger's mouth, a stranger's name she never learned. Until Monday morning, when he walked into her new office and sat down behind the desk marked CEO.

Now she works for the man who ruined her for anyone else. Every glance across the conference table is a memory. Every closed-door meeting is a countdown. He wants her again - properly this time, slowly, thoroughly - and he's not interested in pretending otherwise. She tells herself this is dangerous. She tells herself she'll say no.

She doesn't.

What starts as a secret becomes an obsession neither of them can walk back from. He's ruthless in business and even more ruthless in what he wants from her body, her nights, her surrender. But when the past she never explained collides with the future he's already planning, the question isn't whether they'll end up in bed again.

It's whether wanting him first was ever really a choice.