I Came Here to Work

Julia Marsh came to New York for one reason: work.

Six weeks at Grant Holdings. Keep her head down. Prove she belongs. Go home with something more useful than a famous name on her résumé.

Then Bret Grant notices her.

The billionaire founder doesn't flirt like other men. He watches. He remembers. He notices the comments she leaves buried in spreadsheets and the mistakes everyone else has learned to ignore. When he offers Julia a place closer to him, she refuses.

That should have been the end of it.

Instead, the tension follows them out of conference rooms and elevators and into something far more private.

There are rules. Boundaries. Choices Julia insists must remain hers. Bret wants control, but Julia refuses to become another thing he can acquire simply because he decided he wanted it.

The deeper their relationship becomes, the harder it is to separate desire from power—and attention from possession.

Then Julia discovers Bret noticed her long before she realized he was watching.

She came here to work.

She never expected to become the one thing Bret Grant couldn't keep neatly contained.