LOGINI’ve loved my best friend’s father for years. Damian Cole is untouchable. A cold, powerful tech billionaire who built an empire from nothing. He’s disciplined. Controlled. Off-limits. And completely unaware that every time he looks at me, my heart forgets how to beat. Until the night he catches me sneaking out with another man. The way he looks at me changes. The way he touches me changes. The rules change. What starts as one reckless kiss turns into a secret we can’t control. A love we shouldn’t want. A betrayal that could destroy the one person we both care about most — his daughter, my best friend. And when I discover I’m pregnant… I realize loving him won’t just ruin a friendship. It might ruin everything. But Damian Cole doesn’t lose what belongs to him. And this time… he’s choosing me.
View MoreIt started with something small.It always did.We were in the suite on a Wednesday evening and he had already decided — without asking, without a conversation, without even the courtesy of mentioning it first — that we were not going to the gallery opening on Friday. He said it the way he said everything: plainly, finally, with the quiet certainty of a man who had already run the calculation and arrived at an answer before anyone else had been invited to the table."I've told Chloe I have a conflict," he said.I looked at him. "When did you decide that?""This morning.""And you're telling me now.""Yes."I set my glass down. "You didn't think to ask me.""It's a practical decision. The three of us in that environment right now—""Damian." I looked at him steadily. "You decided. And now you're informing me."He held my gaze. "Is that not what happened?""That's exactly what happened. That's the problem."He was quiet. "I don't see the problem.""I know you don't." I stood. "That's al
It was a small thing. That was what made it worse. Not a conversation that ran too long or a look that stayed a second past what was safe. Just a moment, ordinary, unremarkable to anyone watching, where Chloe turned away to answer her phone and I took one step toward him without thinking. One step. The kind the body makes before the brain catches up with it. The kind that happens when a habit has formed without your permission. I stopped myself immediately. Pulled back. Redirected the movement into reaching for my glass on the counter behind me like that had been the intention all along. Damian didn't move. Didn't react. He was already looking somewhere else by the time I had corrected, already speaking to Chloe about whatever she was saying into the phone, already present and composed and giving nothing away the way he always gave nothing away. I stood at the counter and held my glass and waited for my pulse to settle. Chloe came back into the kitchen two minutes later, still
He asked on a Thursday.Not casually. Not buried inside a work conversation or dressed up as something else. He waited until the office had mostly cleared out, until it was just the two of us finishing up the last of a deck that had taken the better part of the afternoon, and then he closed his laptop and looked at me directly."Can I take you to dinner?" he said. "Not a work thing. Just dinner."I looked up from my screen.He held my gaze steadily. No performance in it. No hedging. Andre had always been like that — when he decided something, he said it cleanly and waited for the answer without filling the silence with qualifications. It was one of the things I had always respected about him."Andre," I said."I know," he said. "I know you're going to say something that sounds reasonable and I'm probably going to accept it. But I wanted to ask properly first." He paused. "Because I think you deserve to be asked properly."I looked at him for a long moment.He was good-looking in the e
I found it by accident.I was in the study looking for a charger — the kind of errand that had become unremarkable over months of coming and going through this house, when I opened the wrong drawer.It was near the back. A photograph, not framed, just loose between two folders like it had been placed there quickly and not moved since. I almost closed the drawer without looking properly.I didn't.The man in the photo was Damian, unmistakably, but a version of him I had never seen. Younger — not dramatically, just enough to show in the set of his shoulders, the slight looseness around his jaw. He was laughing. Properly, genuinely, the kind of laugh that didn't know it was being observed. The kind I had never once seen on his face in all the months I had known him as something more than Chloe's father.Beside him was a woman.She was turned slightly toward him, her hand on his arm, her expression warm in the particular way of someone completely at ease with the person beside them. She w
He just said: "You're not jealous. I hear you."The words hung between them, not like weapons but like bridges. Eva remained still in his arms, the warmth of his body seeping through the thin fabric of her dress. She didn't pull away. He didn't release her. The silence tha
The message came at 8:17.No greeting. No explanation.Just an address and one sentence.Come if you want to talk.I stared at the screen for a long moment without moving.It was a hotel in the financial district. Not one of the loud, flashy ones
Chloe's house always felt different in the afternoon.The light came through the tall windows in long strips, stretching across the wooden floor and the pale sofa like quiet shadows. It was calmer than the nights here. Less tension in the air, less noise from the city outside.I dropped my bag on t
Chloe was still riding the high of the gala two days later.She had her phone propped against her coffee mug at breakfast, scrolling through photos and reacting out loud to each one like she was reliving the night in real time."Oh my God, look at this one," she said, turni






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