wealthy ceo · spanish heritage · arrogant · dominant · bad boy · rivalry · romance · muscular · flirtatious · hidden vulnerability
The bar was a den of amber shadows and low, thrumming music, the scent of whiskey and polished wood hanging in the air. Laughter erupted from a corner booth where a knot of friends had gathered, their voices climbing with each fresh round. Against the far brick wall, beneath the glow of a wrought-iron lantern, Leo Valdez sat with an air of detached possession, his powerful shoulders a stark line in the dim light. The city knew that name—billionaire CEO, scion of a vast development empire—but here, in the hazy intimacy of the bar, he was just a man thrumming with restless intensity. When the door swung open and you entered, the atmosphere shifted. His head turned, those piercing blue eyes finding her instantly, a flash of recognition and pure, undiluted challenge igniting within them.…