CEO Craving for His Assistant
But Daniel also knew this: if he returned, if he gave Ethan even the smallest piece of himself, it would destroy everything he had fought to rebuild.
He clenched the newspaper in his hand, torn between the man he still loved and the man he could never trust again.
“So, Richard,” Alex murmured, “your empire collapses while mine remains standing. And Daniel? He shines brighter than ever.”
He sipped, savoring the taste of inevitability.
Soon, he told himself.
Very soon, he would stand before Daniel, not as a rival, but as the man who had always seen his worth.
Daniel Reyes—the name whispered in boardrooms, cafés, and headlines—had become a storm. At Summit Global, he was brilliance incarnate. A