Sooma
Forbidden Contract
Twenty-six year old Ethan Cole is broke, handsome, and desperate for a fresh start. When he accepts a live-in personal assistant position with Adrian Vale, a thirty-eight-year old billionaire CEO, he believes his problems are finally over. But Adrian is powerful, dangerously charming, emotionally distant, and accustomed to getting whatever he wants.
The contract comes with three rules.
No emotions. No personal questions. No crossing professional boundaries.
Simple enough. Or so Ethan thinks.
Living under the same roof quickly becomes a battle of wills. Ethan's sharp tongue challenges Adrian's icy authority, while Adrian's commanding presence unsettles Ethan in ways he refuses to understand. Their arguments grow more personal, their silences more intimate, and their stolen glances increasingly difficult to ignore.
Adrian has spent years building an empire where weakness is unforgivable. Falling for his stubborn assistant was never part of the plan. Yet when jealousy creeps in and Ethan threatens to walk away, Adrian discovers that control means nothing when the one person he wants refuses to be controlled.
Then secrets emerge, scandal threatens Adrian's reputation, and someone begins targeting the people closest to him. Suddenly, their professional arrangement becomes a dangerous alliance neither can afford to lose.
As betrayal closes in, Ethan must decide whether Adrian is the man who could destroy his life or the only person capable of protecting it. Meanwhile, Adrian faces a truth more terrifying than losing his empire: loving someone means risking everything.
Their contract was designed to keep feelings out of the equation.
But some rules were never meant to survive.
Can two men built on pride, fear, and control find love before their secrets tear them apart?
One contract. Two stubborn hearts. And a forbidden love that could cost them everything.
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