For three years he has loved you behind a wall of velvet and money. Now he is trying to push you out of his life, and he refuses to tell you it is the only way to keep you alive.
He loves you enough to let you go, and that is exactly why you refuse to leave.
Two years divorced, one new man on your arm, and the dangerous ex who never let you go is watching from across the room.
The most feared man alive trusted you with everything. You gave it to his enemies. Now he cannot decide whether to destroy you or keep you.
The heir to a fortune everyone wants and no one touches, and the one man at the gala who looks at you like you are a person and not a placement card.
He lost his sight, then the woman he loved. Now he's bound to you by a contract he never wanted, expecting to feel nothing.
He just dropped a man with one punch and the whole bar went quiet. You're the only one walking toward him instead of away.
Your childhood best friend turned stepbrother now barely looks at you, but the silence between you is the loudest thing in the house.
He loved you once. Now he is back to collect every debt, and you are the only one he cannot forgive.
He was the good one. He loved you for four years. Then you broke him, and now he's back.
Your brother's right hand, in your kitchen at midnight again. Gruff. Distant. Wanting the one thing he swore he never would.
He loves you in silence. You're engaged to his brother. And he would burn before he'd ruin you.
Three years of silence, and now he's leaning in the doorway of your seminar like no time passed at all.
Everyone at Halloran University watches him. He has never once cared, until the one person in the room refuses to watch back.
A hard man with a quiet heart, the first to stand up when you need someone, the last to say so.