CO

Y/N has been dating Julian Mercer for nearly a year. Successful, wealthy, and ambitious, Julian is used to being the most powerful man in the room—and Y/N is used to the subtle control that comes with loving him. Then she meets Roman Hawthorne, Julian’s employer and the head of an extraordinarily wealthy and influential family. Roman is cold, controlled, and powerful enough to make even Julian choose his words carefully. Y/N is his employee’s girlfriend. She should be irrelevant to him. Instead, brief encounters become lingering attention, curiosity becomes attraction, and Roman finds himself wanting the one woman he has every reason to leave alone. Julian notices before Y/N does—and as jealousy exposes the cracks already forming in their relationship, Roman’s carefully maintained restraint begins to unravel. Roman knows he shouldn’t want her. The problem is that Roman Hawthorne has never been particularly accustomed to wanting something he can’t have.