Toxic Relationship

She was running away from pain. He was enjoying his bachelor party. An accident. One night. And a love that will change everything. Celina believed she had a perfect marriage... until she was betrayed in the cruelest way possible. With her husband always sleeping away from home and growing increasingly distant, her joy faded along with the woman she used to be. In a last-ditch effort to save the relationship, she decides to surprise him. But she is the one who receives the final blow. After catching her husband in the arms of his secretary, she wanders aimlessly through the streets, drowns herself in drink, and, in the rainy weather, runs over a homeless man. Afraid of scandal, she decides to take him to a hotel to help him, without imagining that this dirty and mysterious man would awaken uncontrollable desires in her. And so, they experience a night of pure pleasure. What was supposed to be just one intense night turns into a whirlwind of twists and turns. Kicked out of her home and assaulted by her husband, Celina needs to rebuild her life. But fate surprises her once again: at a job interview, she meets the man from the hotel again. Now clean, elegant... and her new boss. Thor Miller. An arrogant, cold man who pretends he has never seen her. And as if that weren't enough, he is engaged. And Celina is pregnant. Between love and hate, dangerous truths, scars from the past, and secrets that threaten the future, the two will need to face a connection that began by chance and has the power to change everything.

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.

"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.