All Chapters of My one nightstand is the Secret CEO: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

CHAPTER TWO EMILY’S POV There are bad mornings and then there are mornings where the man you accidentally slept with walks into your boardroom looking like he’d stepped off the cover of a finance magazine, standing directly across from you like this was all perfectly normal. I stood frozen in the doorway, my coffee cup halfway to my lips and my heartbeat pounding so loudly I was certain everyone in the room could hear it. The professional smile I’d carefully constructed on my way to the office felt like it was cracking at the edges. Jace looked up the exact moment I entered and our eyes locked. Recognition flickered across his face but instead of the panic or awkwardness I’d expected, he smiled. Calm, relaxed, almost smug, like this was an elaborate game he’d already figured out how to win. I forced myself to walk into the room even though my legs felt like jelly and my entire world had just collapsed in on itself. I couldn’t let anyone see how rattled I was, couldn’t give

CHAPTER FOUR EMILY’S POV "Careful!" he mumbled with one hand on my hip as the other gripped my arm and his voice barely above a whisper. Well-tailored suit. Tie slightly loosened and eyes that felt like a storm just waiting for a reason to break out. I stood still in the hallway, short on words to say. Wondering how the next minute I'd wanted to have him fired and the next I was wrapped in the arms of the one man I dreaded. "You like pushing buttons, don't you?" I snapped pulling away from his grip. Trying to build a wall between us. "If I'm starting to push yours, making you feel afraid, then yes," he responded. And for a second it felt like he'd read the words in my head. I hated that word. Afraid… It made my spine stiffen and for some reason it made my pride flare. "I'm not moved by you Jace!" His smile instantly turned wicked. "You should be!" Our eyes locked, and the space between us wasn't space at all— it felt more like a war zone. Charged and hot. Ann

CHAPTER SIX EMILY’S POV I woke up to sunlight streaming through unfamiliar curtains and an immediate, pounding headache that made me wince. My body felt heavy and sore in places that made heat creep up my neck as I slowly became aware of my surroundings. I was naked. Completely naked. I turned my head carefully on the pillow and my breath caught in my throat. Jace lay beside me, his chest rising and falling in steady rhythm, one arm thrown across his forehead as he slept. The sheet was pulled low on his hips, exposing the defined muscles of his abdomen. And then the memories came rushing back like a tidal wave crashing over me. The hotel room after we’d left the gala. His hands sliding up my dress as he pressed me against the door. The way I’d dropped to my knees and take his cock in my mouth while he groaned my name and tangled his fingers in my hair. How he’d laid me on the bed afterward and buried his face between my legs until I was begging, actually begging him fo

EMILY’S POV Inside my office, I sat at my desk staring blankly at my computer screen without seeing anything on it. The words blurred together into meaningless shapes as my mind kept replaying the scene from earlier over and over again. The man I’d slept with. Not once but twice. The man I’d argued with in meetings, the man I’d corrected and assigned tasks to like he was just another junior analyst. The man whose hands had been on my waist just yesterday, whose lips had been on mine, whose fingers had made me come apart in a hotel bathroom. That man was the CEO of the entire company. The CEO. Jace Callahan. How had I not known? How had no one known? And more importantly, what the hell was going to happen now? My stomach churned with a mixture of humiliation and dread. I couldn’t even bring myself to leave my office since the scene in the main workspace this morning. Every time I thought about walking out there and facing all those employees who’d witnessed everything, I