Secret

"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.

Él es el jefe. Está comprometido con otra. Y es el secreto prohibido que Freya no puede ocultar. Cada viernes por la noche, después de que todos los empleados se hayan ido a casa, Freya Bennett cierra la puerta de la oficina en el piso 37 con Ethan Crawford — el frío y perfecto director general de Crawford Group, que ya está comprometido con la heredera del imperio inmobiliario Ashford. Al principio, era solo un acuerdo secreto entre dos adultos solitarios. Solo algo físico. Solo los viernes por la noche. Solo en la oficina. Pero las reglas empiezan a romperse cuando Ethan sostiene su mirada tres segundos de más. Cuando Freya empieza a sentir celos al oír mencionar el nombre de Karina Ashford en las reuniones. Cuando no pueden parar, incluso después de haber estado a punto de ser descubiertos en innumerables ocasiones. Fuera, está Edgar — el novio de Freya, que empieza a sospechar. Está Karina — la prometida de Ethan, que contrata a un detective privado. Y hay un contrato multimillonario que depende de la decisión de una sola persona. Cuanto más se hunden en las mentiras, más difícil se vuelve distinguir la lujuria del amor. Pero en un mundo donde los apellidos lo son todo, ¿pueden una secretaria y su director general elegirse el uno al otro sin destruirlo todo? Un secreto. Dos vidas. Cuatro personas que saldrán heridas.

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.

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 ?

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?

For three years, Mara Croft played the perfect CEO's wife, graceful, patient, invisible. When Ethan slides the divorce papers across the desk without meeting her eyes, she doesn't fall apart. She names her price, one point eight billion dollars and watches the most powerful man in the city agree without blinking. To him, she was never the woman he wanted. Just the one he settled for, and settling has a price. What he doesn't know is that Mara isn't just leaving. She's disappearing with a secret that will destroy everything he thinks he knows about their marriage. But when a clinic receipt surfaces and his lawyers start making calls, the clean exit he paid for begins to unravel. The woman he dismissed as a quiet, lovesick wife has been three steps ahead of him the entire time. He let her go once, he won't make that mistake again. Some exits come with consequences neither of them saw coming.

Nicolas Varela, el CEO de Varela Holdings, ha construido su vida alrededor de exito, lujos y una regla que no debe de romperse jamas: No mezclar los sentimientos con los negocios. Madison Blake por su parte, ha construido su vida a base de esfuerzos. Tolerando el terrible caracter de su jefe y siendo la unica capaz de desafiarlo. Lo que al comienzo es una relacion estrictamente profesional, poco a poco comienza a formarse en algo mucho mas intimo cuando se ven en la obligacion de pasar mas tiempo juntos. Entre los negocios multimillonarios, los secretos, la lujuria y las viejas heridas del pasado, Madison y Nicolas descubren que las reglas muchas veces estan para romperse. ¿Podran resistirse a todo obstaculo que se atraviese en sus caminos? ¿Seran capaces de cuidar la unica regla entre ellos?