Yours to Break

I signed the NDA before I read the clause about obedience.

Three years ago, Adrian Vance was my mentor's business partner — untouchable, ice-veined, twenty years my senior in every way that mattered except the one night neither of us admitted happened. Then he vanished from the company overnight, and I told myself it was for the best.

Now I need his signature to save the firm my late father built, and Adrian Vance is the only investor willing to write the check. His price isn't money. It's control — of my schedule, my discretion, my nights. A private arrangement, he calls it. Ownership, is what it feels like, the moment he closes his office door.

I hate how much I want to hand it over.

Adrian doesn't do soft. He doesn't do public. He does rules, and consequences, and a possessiveness that turns polite conversation into something dangerous the second we're alone. I tell myself I'm only here for the contract. He tells himself I'm only a controlled variable. Neither of us believes it by the second week.

But Adrian has a reason for disappearing three years ago, and it's about to walk back into both our lives — along with everything he was protecting me from. When the truth surfaces, I'll have to decide if surrender was ever really the danger, or if it was the only honest thing between us.

He wanted control. I wanted to survive. What we built in that office was never in the contract.

This is a high-heat, emotionally intense standalone romance with a guaranteed HEA.

Tropes: Forbidden Workplace Romance, Power Exchange/Dom-Sub Dynamic, Possessive Alpha Hero, Secret History, Financial Leverage, Age-Gap

18+ Reader Advisory: This book contains explicit sexual content, power-exchange dynamics, and mature themes intended for adult readers only.