"There is a desk between us right now, but we both know that by midnight, I’m going to have you pressed against it. HR be damned."

Madelyn Clarke moved to New York with a suitcase, a secret, and a desperate need to stay invisible. Landing a job at Torres International Holdings was supposed to be her fresh start—a way to secure a future for her sister and bury the past for good.

But Madelyn’s carefully reconstructed life is thrown into chaos on her first day. Her new boss, the formidable and piercingly handsome William Torres, isn't a stranger. He’s the man she shared an anonymous, high-heat night with just forty-eight hours ago.

Now, the man who controls her career also knows exactly how she tastes. William is a king of industry who always gets what he wants, and what he wants is Madelyn back in his bed. As they strike a dangerous deal to keep their "extracurricular" activities strictly uncomplicated, Madelyn realizes that the most dangerous place to be isn't the streets she ran from—it’s between the sheets of the most powerful man in Manhattan.

It had been three days since I got the doctor's instructions to rest.


Three days since I had time to myself, to relax, to really catch up with Sophie and to do productive things that didn't require the great organization that was Torres International Holdings.


And I think I had gotten enough rest. I decided I'd be back in the office first thing Monday morning before my lovely employer started to feel like I was taking advantage of the time I was given and decided to fire me.


If I was being honest, I couldn't help but wonder how he'd been coping in that office these past three days. They most likely got someone to stand in for me in the meantime. Because that man is so demanding, it would be impossible for him to have managed without some sort of assistance.


Chapter 12 - William