The Asset, The Seductress, and The Hidden Gold.The air in the Basti hotel suite—a temporary, absurdly luxurious bubble amidst the highway’s dust and the roar of heavy machinery—was thick with a manufactured sense of victory. Karen, the CEO of Bong, saw it as vindication. She had been right all along: her ambition was larger than the conspiracy arrayed against her. The Minister, Savita, had blinked. The project was back on. Her team was free. And now, she had her reward.Rahul stood by the window, the harsh, floodlit reality of the construction site a backdrop to his silhouette. He was dressed only in the loose-fitting trousers of his sleepwear, his chest and torso a smooth, powerful canvas of sun-darkened skin that she had claimed a thousand times in her mind. He was quiet, a dangerous stillness that only intensified the victory she felt.“Come away from the window, Rahul,” Karen said, her voice a low, throaty invitation. She was in th
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