LOGINFive years ago, Sasha Rivera left Rafael Moretti on the night that should have changed their lives forever. She had just found out she was pregnant and planned to tell her husband after dinner with the Moretti family. Instead, his family accused her of cheating with evidence that had been cut, twisted, and arranged to destroy her. But Rafael chose to believe his family, called her a gold digger, and let her walk away without chasing her. So Sasha left. Without Moretti money. Without telling Rafael she was carrying his child. Now, she is no longer the wife looked down on by an old Milan family. She is a successful architecture and interior design firm in Los Angeles, and the single mother of a four-year-old boy with someone’s blue eyes and unmistakable face. Her life is finally under control, until the biggest project of her career pulls her back into the past. Her client, Noelle Jamesson, is a wealthy heiress who wants Sasha to design her family’s Malibu mansion. And Noelle’s boyfriend is Rafael Moretti.... Colder. More powerful. As Noelle’s boyfriend, Rafael is suddenly everywhere Sasha has to be. In meetings. At dinners. On the Malibu site. Standing too close, watching too carefully, saying her name like he still knows exactly where to cut. Sasha can handle his coldness. She can handle his new woman. She can even handle the way her body still remembers him before her pride can stop it. What she cannot handle is Maxime. Her whole world. Because if Rafael ever learns the truth, he will not simply ask for a place in Max’s life. Rafael takes what he believes belongs to him. And Sasha is terrified that ....he will come for the only thing she cannot survive losing.
View MoreQUEEN NATASH, the most powerful woman in Los Angeles and the boss of NATEL casino where all the games take place.
Natasha Garcia was born to the family of Smith and Helen Garcia. Me Smith worked as a driver for a very influential politician, but one day he witnessed a murder scene that cost him his life and that of his wife.Little Natasha had to grow up alone in the street eating from the waste and she grew up desperate for a way out of poverty.She was finally scouted by Mrs. Cruz who took her into her casino. Her job was as a stripper who had to tend to all the needs of their clients.But soon after, Natasha didn't want to remain like that, so she began to do more than just be a sex toy.She began to help influential men and women clean up their mess which includes a murder scene.She was finally holding the secrets of the most influential people in Los Angeles and that made her more powerful.Soon she opened up her casino, beating Mrs. Cruz off the game which made them sworn enemies.Slowly, she began to climb up the ladder of success, she would do anything to make herself successful, she became a beast and the badass in the game, and within a few yearsShe started up a company producing her clothing, shoes, and makeup collection. Everything related to beauty was produced at NATEL FASHION WORLD.Mrs. Cruz became curious and badly wanted to know how Natasha made her money, she was so desperate to beat Natasha until she met Adam Madison.Adam Madison is a thirty-seven years old young man who dropped out of college and had to do multiple jobs to provide for his mother and sister.They were everything to him, he badly wanted to provide for his mother and sister, and he was ready to do anythiwith with respect the risk involved to give his family a better life.He badly wanted to leave the slumber until he met Mrs. Cruz who offered him a job of a lifetime that would change his life for good, but it was almost an impossible one.She gave him a new life and a new identity and had his work as a spy at NATEL casino with just one mission which was to make Natasha fall in love with him at all costs.Natasha has never been in love, she got everything she wanted and threw them after use, love didn't exist to her, but Adam who understands what was involved, will go to any length to make it work.Who is bound to win the game?“So who carries the cost if they miss the revised ship date?” Henry asked from the screen.“Fabricator,” we answered at the same time.Maya looked down to hide a smile.I pretended not to notice.The meeting moved on.Capital release. Supplier allocation. Glazing replacement. Revised installation sequence.Rafael corrected one of my freight exposure numbers. I corrected the cash-flow timing assumption from his portfolio director. When he asked for the section drawing, my hand was already opening the sheet he meant before he finished the sentence. When I asked what happened to the west elevation if the shipment came in four days late, Rafael had already calculated the overlap with the second installation crew.If anyone in this room didn’t know our history, they probably would have seen an incredibly efficient partnership.Two people who thought in different rhythms but somehow kept arriving at the same answer.Not two ex-spouses whose lawyers were currently discussing the blood of the
“This is an office, not the Colosseum.”“I’m just driving you.”The second was when he took the exit toward West Hollywood with one hand relaxed on the wheel of my car, black sunglasses hiding his eyes and an expression far too peaceful for a man who had spent breakfast saying he wanted to make sure Rafael Moretti wasn’t “playing chess with family law.”“Seriously, Gamma.”“I heard you the first time.”“Your face didn’t.”“That’s an interesting neurological problem.”The third was right after we pulled into Aster House’s underground parking garage and Gamma shut off the engine.I turned fully toward him. “You are not talking to Rafael.”Gamma took off his sunglasses. “I haven’t even seen Rafael.”“Good. Keep it that way.”“I’m just driving you.”“You keep saying that in the tone of a man hiding a weapon.”“I didn’t bring a weapon.”I stared at him.He opened the car door. “That didn’t make you feel better, did it?”“Not remotely.”We took the elevator up together.I’d changed out of m
“Maximito,” Mama said a few minutes later as she stood. “Come with Abuela to the garden. I want to see Mami’s flowers.”Max immediately slid off the stool. “Are there bugs?”“Of course.”“I can research.”“Of course you can.”I pointed at him. “Don’t touch a bee.”“I’m not scared of bees.”“Bees aren’t scared of you either.”“That’s rude.”Mama took his hand. “Come on.”Max stopped in the doorway and looked back. “Kevin too?”“No.”“But he’s surveillance.”“Kevin is off duty.”Max sighed, then let Mama lead him out toward the terrace while immediately launching into an explanation about how bees lived in “little societies.”The glass door slid shut behind them, muting the conversation outside, and somehow the kitchen felt different immediately without any of us having to say a word.Noah lowered his phone. Reagan stayed on FaceTime a few seconds longer, blowing a kiss toward his wife and promising he’d call again later before finally ending it. Gamma pushed his empty plate away, and G
By late morning, my house had lost all rights to call itself a private residence.I heard the first car pull into the driveway while I was taking empanadas out of the oven, and Max’s voice immediately jumped two octaves from the living room.“THEY’RE HERE!”I didn’t even have time to put the tray down.Max appeared in the hallway wearing a clean white T-shirt, navy shorts, and black hair that Gabriella had somehow managed to dry earlier and was already messy again because apparently gravity had a personal vendetta against my son’s bangs.“Don’t run outside,” I said.“I’m not running.”He ran outside.“MAXIME.”The front door opened.I set the tray on the island harder than necessary, pulled off the oven mitt, and went after him while already feeling Latina mode knocking from the inside.“Max, if you go down that driveway without shoes again, I swear to God...”I stopped in the foyer.Mama had barely made it through the door and Max was already in her arms.“¡Mi bebé!”“Abuela!”Mama l
After lunch, I moved my laptop and iPad into the living room. I cracked the glass door open so the sea breeze could slip in. I sat on the sofa with my MacBook on my lap, my iPad on the table, Apple Pencil in hand, my hair twisted messily on top of my head. On the screen, the Malibu floor plan stared
By ten twelve, I had already left Aster House with my laptop still warm in my bag, one unfinished contractor call in my ear, and Nina’s last text message sitting on my screen:[If the tile vendor calls again, I’m faking my own death.]I replied with one hand at a red light.[Do it after lunch. We ha
We went downstairs together. The house was still full of clean morning light, the large glass windows in the living room catching the color of the ocean in the distance. In the kitchen, Max’s breakfast was almost gone: small pieces of pancake, strawberries, scrambled eggs he had eaten while complain
Today, Maxime Rivera decided that uniform shorts were a form of oppression.I knew this before he said it, because he was already lying flat on his back on the bedroom rug with one leg in the air, his black hair sticking out in every direction, his bangs covering almost half his forehead, and his wh












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