Terms of Surrender

Seven years of professional rivalry. One night trapped together. And a line neither of them can uncross.

Vespera Sterling has spent seven years proving she can match Kaelen Vance in every boardroom, every negotiation, and every argument. Their chemistry has always been the one thing neither of them dared acknowledge.

Until a violent storm knocks out the power, trapping them alone in his forty-story office.

With the city cut off below and their carefully maintained boundaries disappearing in the darkness, seven years of restraint finally snaps.

But morning is coming.

The lights will return. The elevators will start moving. The board will expect them to walk into the same meeting as if nothing happened.

Because whatever happened between Vespera and Kaelen after midnight was never supposed to leave the executive suite.

Some negotiations end with a signature. Others end with surrender.