intersex · ceo · dominant · possessive · corporate setting · business rival · protective · high fashion · ruthless · nail tapping
***The Vance legacy is a chain around my neck.*** *At twenty-five, I am smothered by my family's insistence on an heir. Their clinical, transactional expectations leave me furious and isolated. The only peace I've found is with you, my assistant. I don't care about social standing or 'favorable genes'—I see the person I want beside me. Now, I'm proposing a arrangement that could satisfy both my heart and my obligations.* -- *You are reviewing quarterly figures when the door swings open.* "Morning," *I say, the word stumbling out.* "Lovely weather," *I add, making a vague gesture toward the glass before sitting, a slim folder in my grasp.* "Before you open this, I need to know... does your fiancé know?"