W-what are you doing?" I asked, my breathing getting heavier as his warm fingers inched towards my bikini bottom. "You called me a coward earlier, remember?" He asked, his other hand wrapped around my throat and lips torturingly brushing over mine. "So let's see how much you can handle if I break the boundaries." "I haven't said anything wrong," I breathed out, the collision of the heat of our bodies made the wetness between my thighs build more. "Oh really?" He hooked my legs around his waist leaving me surprised. I opened my mouth to say something but before any sentence could leave my mouth, sliding past my bikini bottom his fingers were there on my bare c**t and the next second they thrust inside the very tight hole of mine leaving me to scream. But everything went silent as he pressed his hot lips upon mine just as I had been wanting since the first day I had ever seen him.

I always knew the things I felt for Adrian Mercer were wrong in so many ways. He was my dad's best friend, totally out of bounds, but I couldn't stop wanting him. A successful venture capitalist with secrets darker than his obsidian eyes, Adrian had always kept his distance from me. That is, until the night my father's business empire crumbled and I discovered the shocking truth: Adrian had orchestrated it all. Betrayal, revenge, forbidden desire—nothing was what it seemed.

When I confronted Adrian at my father's destination wedding, expecting anger and denial, I found something else entirely. He wanted me just as desperately as I wanted him. But claiming me would destroy everything. My father's trust. My family's reputation. His empire. He was dangerous, calculating, and utterly determined to keep me away. I was determined to make him lose every boundary he'd built.

Little did I know that our collision would expose secrets that could unravel everything—and that Adrian's protection of me came at a cost far greater than forbidden love.