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One Night With The Ruthless CEO

Chapter 5 

Word Count: 863    |    Released on: Today at 18:10

han her entire apartment. Sunlight streamed through the massive

-remembered dream. The penthouse. The construction site. The way Isaac had looked at her when he kne

er phone and dial

will not believe

the phone-the reunion, the one-night stand, the

it, this isn't a coincidence. This guy is hunting you. He's obse

uld be like to stop running, to lean into whatever this was. But then she remembered the look in Isaac's eyes in the lobb

apartment was empty. A note in Isaac's strong, decisive handwriti

who could be ordered around like a subordinate. She had told herself that morning that

called a car, went back to her own ap

n Brenda Miller, a designer from another

on Caitlin's bandaged ankle. Her tone was laced with fake

ice flat. She turned back to h

, Caitlin packed her bag and slowly made her way to t

curb. The back window glided down, revealin

, Caitlin." It

ith a sinking feeling that she was beginning to accept this as normal. The chauffeured rides. Th

pointed to a high stool at

osing muscular forearms dusted with fine, dark hair. He opened a stainless-steel,

an easy, practiced grace. He seasoned the steaks, heated a cast-iron skillet, and f

e in a comfortable silence, the city lights twinkling below them. The wine worked it

voice soft. "Why are y

yes locked onto hers, their intensity ste

lin felt something crack inside her chest. No one ha

his thumb gently stroking her cheek, which was now warm from the wine. Her hear

e, found hers. The kiss started gently, a question, but when she

d him-reminded herself-that this was exactly what she had said she didn'

s arms. He carried her toward the master bedroom, his str

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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.”