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One Night With The Ruthless CEO

Chapter 4 

Word Count: 1051    |    Released on: Today at 18:10

old, scuffed Timberland boots, the heavy footwear a stark contrast to the heels she wore during the week. After shoulde

he blueprints with the physical structure. The air was thick with the smell of dust and we

tra money she couldn't afford to turn down, not after maxing out her credit card at the sanitarium. She had told

he mud, pulled up to the edge of the site. A group of men in crisp suits a

from a distance, she recognized the confident

as he listened intently to an engineer. He looked comp

as nothing. She had told him to forget her. He had. And now she was standing in the mud of his construction site, h

w her. Clutching her roll of blueprints to her che

teel pipe. It rolled. Her ankle twisted viole

ed to the ground. The blueprints scattered around her in t

und. His eyes scanned the area, and when they land

instant. He moved before he could think, his body responding to the

into a run, crossing the muddy, treacherous ground i

ol of his trousers immediately soaking up the

ght. His hands, surprisingly gentle, mov

p breath of pain. "I'm fine," she l

ehind her back. He lifted her as if she weighed nothing. The sudden, shocking intimacy of being

that she didn't need his help. But the words died in her throat. Because for a momen

s to the nearest private clinic,

nkle tightly in a bandage and gave her a prescription for painkillers, wh

her into his arms and deposited

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river an addr

home," she protest

old and final. "You can't manage four flig

wasn't anger. It wasn't pity. It was something else-something she could

luxury high-rise. Isaac carried her from the car to a p

Floor-to-ceiling windows revealed a panoramic, god-like view of the Man

on a massive, buttery-s

f his crisp white shirt, revealing the strong column of his throat. Then he disappeared

h sending a shiver up her spine. As he carefully placed the ice pack on her swollen ankle, his

ent. But in that moment, the chasm between his world and hers felt a li

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One Night With The Ruthless CEO
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“Since her father's bankruptcy, Caitlin Knight had been drowning in her mother's astronomical sanitarium bills, clinging to a junior design job just to survive. But her manager handed her a sickening ultimatum: secure the massive Zenith Corporation contract by attending a private dinner with their top executive, Donnie Hicks, or be fired by morning. The "dinner" turned out to be a calculated trap. The private dining room was soundproof, and a hidden jammer completely killed her cell service. Hicks didn't even glance at her carefully prepared design proposals. Instead, he forced her to drink, his eyes gleaming with greedy intent as he threatened to blacklist her from the industry if she didn't comply. Then, under the heavy mahogany table, his hot, sweaty hand clamped onto her calf and began sliding deliberately up her thigh. The humiliation was suffocating, a hot bile rising in her throat, but the sheer injustice of it all ignited a volcanic surge of rage in her chest. Why did she have to endure this torment just to keep her mother alive? "You touch me again and I'll call the police." Caitlin violently yanked his hand away, grabbed her briefcase, and fled into the cold Manhattan night, tears streaming down her face. She thought her career was entirely over and she had nowhere left to run. But what Donnie Hicks didn't know was that the elusive billionaire CEO of Zenith Corporation, Isaac Harrell, was the same brooding boy who used to sit behind Caitlin in high school-and he was already coming for her.”