Sugar Mommy Clause

Emory Sato is drowning. With a negative bank balance, a micromanaging nineteen-year-old boss at her dead-end barista job, and her mother’s mounting medical bills, she can't afford her life, let alone her pride. So when a vetted, highly exclusive companionship listing offers a lifeline, she fills out the application. She expects a transaction. She expects cold, hard cash.

She doesn't expect Vivian Cross.

Vivian is the CFO of Meridian Technologies. At forty-four, she is impossibly composed, intimidatingly wealthy, and fiercely guarded. Twelve years after a devastating divorce, Vivian relies on ironclad contracts and strict boundaries to satisfy her needs without risking her heart. Emory is supposed to be just another iteration—a six-month exclusive arrangement complete with an eight-thousand-dollar monthly stipend, a luxury wardrobe, and strict rules for public events and private encounters.

But from the moment Emory sits in Vivian's glass-walled office and refuses to play the polished professional, the lines begin to blur. Vivian's carefully constructed control cracks under Emory's fierce honesty, and Emory finds herself intoxicated by a woman who commands boardrooms by day and unravels her at night.

As the contract ticks toward its expiration date, public scrutiny threatens to expose them, and the extreme financial imbalance threatens to destroy them. Can they survive the end of the arrangement, or is the contract the only thing keeping them together?