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One night with a closed off billionaire changed everything.

Darian Caldwell is forty-four, impossibly powerful, and the most off-limits man in New York.

I’m one bad month from losing everything - my mother's legacy, my independence, my reason for getting up at four in the morning.

The contract for his event will save my flower shop. I tell myself it is just business. But each time we meet, leaves me longing for the next.

Then the gala. The kiss. One reckless, perfect night neither of us was supposed to want.

He keeps showing up. Learning my world. Every contact chipping away at the walls around my heart. Each touch stirring feelings I have not let myself experience. Trust foremost.

Then - I arrive at my shop to see everything being packed in boxes, stacked on the sidewalk and put on a truck. His doing.

He's pushing into my life, my business. Making decisions for me. Not asking. I want none of it.

My heart is confused. My head is telling me to stay away.

The man who never lets anyone in wants everything. And I am not sure I want to give it to him. But two pink lines just made the decision more difficult.