Secret

"I want to hear it from you. I want to watch you look me in the eye and tell me they aren't mine… without looking away even once." I swallowed hard, because the game he was playing was cruel. I knew that the slightest flicker in my expression would feed his suspicions. I lifted my chin, met his gaze without blinking, and spoke slowly, "They. Are. Not. Yours." The muscle in Damian's jaw tightened, and his breath brushed my face, warm and steady. "You've gotten better at this, Harper," he murmured, using my last name like a provocation. "But you're still not that good." "Or maybe you're just hearing what you want to hear," I shot back, fighting the suffocating closeness. "You hate losing. But sometimes, losing is inevitable. Accept it and get out of my life." Stella was desperate. After dropping out of college to pay off the debts her father left behind, all she wanted was a fresh start, even if that meant forging a résumé and swallowing her pride to land a job as the secretary to the ruthless CEO Damian Winter. What she didn't expect was that her new boss would be as irresistible as he was dangerous. Or that a series of sharp provocations and intense encounters would lead to an indecent contract. A secret agreement ruled by power and desire, in which Stella committed to satisfying Damian's every whim, with one single condition: she could never get pregnant. But what would happen when Stella discovered she had broken that rule? Now pregnant and emotionally shattered, Stella learned from the news on TV that Damian was engaged to a wealthy heiress. Hiding the truth seemed like her only option. But secrets would never stay buried forever.

“Quiero arruinarte. Siempre ha sido mi sueño. Pero cuanto más deseo tu ruina… más te deseo.” Ava Duval, heredera de una de las organizaciones más temidas, nunca debió ser la presa. Pero un ataque brutal destroza su mundo y la deja sin otra opción que buscar protección. Ethan es elegido de inmediato. Callado. Letal. Indescifrable. El arma perfecta. Para el mundo, Ava es intocable— el activo más valioso de la nación. Para Ethan, es una misión. Un medio para un fin. Una debilidad esperando ser explotada. Pero cuanto más se acerca a ella, más se desdibujan las líneas. Lo que comienza como un juego calculado de control se convierte en obsesión— peligrosa, absorbente e imposible de escapar. Porque en un mundo construido sobre el poder y la traición, el deseo es el error más letal de todos.

"I have sold myself to my boss to pay off a debt. I must be his wife and follow his rules under contract. A secret love since I met him, my husband has a cold and hard heart. Could there be a good heart hidden behind that façade?

They say wine gets better with age. And being the assistant to the most powerful CEO in the country is far from easy… but I love it. Andrew Tanner is a good man, someone I deeply respect, and I’ve always kept things professional—no matter how dangerous it is to admit that he’s also incredibly attractive. He’s much older than me, and I know my place. Or at least, I thought I did… until a private email lands in my hands by mistake, changing everything. After nearly twelve years at the top of the company, Andrew never imagined that his greatest temptation wouldn’t be a billion-dollar deal, but his assistant—young, brilliant, and far too close. When someone from his past resurfaces with a dangerous blackmail, threatening to destroy everything he’s built, Johari becomes his strongest support… and his greatest weakness. A relationship between them is taboo. Forbidden. Andrew is nearly forty-five. Johari is twenty-eight. He’s her boss. She knows it. They both feel the attraction. Can they keep their feelings a secret… or will desire expose them both? **** ©Work registered with Safe Creative.

J’avais vingt-quatre ans quand j’ai demandé le divorce à l’homme le plus dangereux de Londres. Ethan Storm a signé les papiers sans même les lire… tout en disant « je t’aime » à sa maîtresse au téléphone. Un peu plus de trente jours plus tard, j’étais déjà fiancée à un autre. Andrew Sinclair, quarante ans, PDG multimilliardaire, l’homme qui fait plier le monde d’un simple appel. Il m’a proposé un contrat : — « Un mariage de deux ans. Tu me donnes un héritier. Je te donne tout. » J’ai signé. Parce que je voulais oublier le mafieux qui ne m’a jamais touchée. Parce que je voulais me sentir désirée au moins une fois dans ma vie. Mais je ne savais pas qu’Ethan allait perdre le contrôle en l’apprenant. Je ne savais pas qu’il allait apparaître à mes fiançailles, une arme à la main, promettant de me ramener. Et je ne savais absolument pas qu’Andrew cachait un secret capable de me détruire. Maintenant, j’ai un ex-mari mafieux qui refuse de perdre. Un futur mari milliardaire qui fait de moi une femme chaque nuit. Et un cœur qui s’emballe encore quand il entend le grondement de cette moto noire. Entre l’enfer que je connais déjà et le paradis qui peut disparaître à tout moment… qui vais-je choisir ?

I was the girl men looked away from. The one with a scar and a broken heart. So when he asked for one night, I gave it to him. He made me feel wanted… then left me like I meant nothing. I didn’t cry for long. I disappeared. I changed. I became a woman no one can touch… no one can break. Now I’m back. He looks at me and doesn’t know me. But his eyes still burn when they meet mine. His hands still reach for me like he can’t stop. Good. Let him want me. Let him chase me. Because I’m not the same girl he used. And this time… I’m the one holding the secret that can destroy him.

A loud moan escaped my throat as Alessandro slams me against the wall, his hard body pinning me tightly. “Keep fighting, baby,” he growls in a low voice, while sliding his hand under my dress. His Fingers find me soaked, plunging them deep and curling until my hips buck and I cry out. “Your body already knows you’re mine.” “Say it, mia cara. Say you’re mine.” Elara Voss is her family’s dirty little secret, the hidden daughter their dad loved in silence, while her sisters burned her with hate. To bury the shame and seal a massive deal, they force her to marry Alessandro Russo, Vegas’s deadliest mafia don. Her sisters were promised to perfect men. While She got handed over to a monster. But he didn’t just take, he became addicted to her. She became the only one who could calm the rage in him. Only she drives him wild, fantasizing about her mouth on him, swallowing every drop as she trembles and begs drives it to the edge. After he learns how cruelly she was treated by her family, the cold rejections and all of the hidden pain, his obsession turns lethal. “I own you,” he said in a raspy voice one night, his fist in my hair, yanking my head back to meet his burning eyes. “Every breath and every cry, if anyone should as much think of Hurting you again, I’ll make you watch while I tear them apart, piece by piece. Any man who gets close to you, dies screaming.” She then later uncovers his darkest secret, the bloody truth he buried deep underneath. Will it shatter them… or chain her to him forever?