To escape the wedding of her backstabbing cousin and ex-boyfriend, Hazel Vance seeks oblivion at a masquerade ball. A passionate, anonymous encounter leaves her with a son, the only clue to his father a pair of striking, violet-blue eyes. Three years later, she becomes the executive assistant to Liam Sterling, an influential and notoriously difficult CEO whose gaze feels hauntingly familiar. But Liam wants nothing to do with his new assistant; he is obsessed with finding a woman who vanished into the night, the one ghost he can’t forget.

The moment that insufferable viper Isabella Clairemont witnessed our entire interaction, her shrill voice cut through the air like broken glass:


"What exactly do you think you're doing, you shameless little climber? Take your dirty hands off Liam right now!"


I kept my arm firmly wrapped around my assistant's slender waist, my lips brushing against her ear as I commanded in a low growl:


"Stay exactly where you are." She could undoubtedly feel the hardness pressing against her, but that was nobody else's business. My gaze turned lethal as I fixed it on Isabella Clairemont. "Watch your tone, Isabella Clairemont, and apologize to Miss Hazel this instant."


Chapter 11 - Chapter 11 - Professional Boundaries