LOGINRiley never planned to work for Jax Maddox—the arrogant, insufferable, and ridiculously good-looking tennis champion. She only took the job when her twin sister, Vanessa falsely applied for an elite assistant position under her name, landed it, and then vanished. But now, she’s stuck—answering to Jax’s impossible demands, biting back her sharp retorts, and trying not to lose her mind (or the job) under his relentless teasing. Jax Maddox doesn’t do assistants. They never last. And yet, there’s something about Riley—her sharp mouth, her refusal to be intimidated by him—that gets under his skin. So, instead of firing her, he makes her life miserable just to see how long she’ll last. But Riley has bigger things to worry about—like Leo Carter, Jax’s friend and the only man who has ever made her heart race at first sight. As Leo turns up the charm and Jax turns up the torment, Riley finds herself caught between two men who are used to winning. Riley has to decide: will she play it safe, or will she risk everything—including her heart? And for whom—Leo or Jax?
View MoreRiley’s POV The vibration of my phone cut through the silence of my apartment. For a moment, I almost ignored it. Lately, every notification felt like a sharp knife pressing against my throat— everything reminded me of the chaos, the accusations and the way Jax had looked at me like I was a stranger who had betrayed him, but then my eyes caught the name on the screen.Caleb. My chest tightened, my thumb hovered over the message icon far longer than it should have. I already knew that if Caleb was reaching out, it had something to do with Jax. And just the thought of him, of his voice, his touch, made my throat ache.After hovering my fingers on the screen for several seconds, I swiped the icon and opened the message thread. My eyes skimmed as I read: “Hey Riley, I do hope you’re good. I wanted to butt in and tell you that Jax really thought you wrote the expose. He’s an ass for not giving you a chance to explain yourself, but he misunderstood everything. He misses you, and I know yo
Two months later Jax’s POVThe ball hit the clay hard, the echo snapping through the night. My grip tightened around the racket as I shifted my stance, rolling my shoulders to ease the stiffness out. Too long. It had been too damn long since I picked this thing up with purpose.Across the court, Caleb bounced another ball lazily against the ground, a smirk tugging at his lips. “Look at you,” he said, tossing it high and sending it sailing over. “You’ve finally woken up from the dead.”I swung hard and my muscles protested, but it was the good kind of ache. The kind I’d missed. “Don’t get ahead of yourself,” I muttered. “I’m just rusty.”“You’re more than rusty,” Caleb teased, darting forward to return the ball. “You’re tragic. Like watching a king crawl back onto his throne after a nasty fall.”I lunged, returning his shot with a backhand that cracked across the court. “Better watch your mouth, or I’ll make you regret showing up.”He laughed, sweat already gleaming along his temple.
Riley’s Pov The streetlights buzzed faintly as I walked up the cracked pavement toward my building. I hadn’t answered Jax’s calls all day. I couldn’t, nor after everything he had said to me, and definitely not after the humiliation of realizing that the person who’d twisted the knife in my back wasn’t some stranger—but my own damn sister. All I wanted was to enter my apartment, close the door, and let silence be my shield. “Hey, sis!” My head jerked up to see Vanessa standing at the corner of the building, waving like we had spoken few days ago and nothing had happened. She started running toward me with her arms spread wide and a smile plastered across her face as if she expected me to melt into her embrace. My body froze for a split second. Then the anger I’d been bottling up inside my chest boiled over. The moment she got close, I raised my hand and slapped her. She stumbled back, her eyes widened as a red mark started blooming across her cheek. “R-Riley?” she stammer
Jax’s POVThe television murmured in the corner, replaying the same headline for the thousandth time since we’d gotten back. “Billionaire Jax Maddox Splits with Riley.” A grainy shot of her walking out of the building with her chin high and her mouth pressed in that stubborn way she did when she refused to break. God, I’d memorized every line of that face, and now it was plastered across every screen in the city. I turned the volume up just to torture myself.“She knew exactly what she was doing,” I muttered into the glass. “She chose the money over me.”The door clicked behind me and Elias walked in. “What the hell do you want?” My voice cracked. “Haven’t you done enough?”“I came to set the record straight,” he said, his voice low but even. “You need to hear the truth before you burn everything to the ground.”I laughed, sharp and humorless. “Truth? That word doesn’t sit well in your mouth.”“I understand, but I think it’s important that you hear it.“I turned to face him, my glas






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