His obsession
Ethan Cole built an empire on two things,a ruthless precision and zero tolerance for failure.
In four years as CEO of Cole Tech Enterprises, he's gone through nineteen assistants. Some lasted weeks. Most didn't survive the first.
Then came Lily.
No Ivy League degree. No polished resume. Just hotel management experience, nervous hands, and a habit of knocking things over at the worst possible moments.
She was every reason he should've said no.
He hired her anyway.
And then she did something none of the others ever did
She stayed.
Not because she was perfect. But because every time he pushed, she pushed back harder. Every time he expected her to break, she showed up the next morning like the argument never happened.
He told himself it was impressive in a clinical sense. Useful, even.
He told himself he was keeping her around because firing her would be inconvenient.
He told himself a lot of things.
But Ethan Cole didn't build a billiondollar company by lying to himself and lately, every time Lily walks into a room, the lies are getting harder to hold.
She isn't what he planned for.
She isn't what he'd ever allow.
And she's becoming the one thing he can't control.
Now all he wants... is her