J.T. Geissinger

“Let it be. Accept that you have warring factions inside you. If you’re living by your core values, all the second-guessing is just noise you can give yourself permission to ignore.”

“He could be Jack the Ripper and I’d still let him come all over my tits.”

People say time heals all wounds, but those people are assholes.

What if this whole love thing wasn’t meant to work out for either one of us, and in the end

“Let’s just say she’s not exactly a romantic.”

Kage takes my face in his hands. He gazes at me, his lips curved into a tender smile. “Neither was I. She just hasn’t met The One yet.”

My mouth goes dry. My pulse surges.

Is he telling me I’m The One for him? I mean, obsession and true love are two very different things.

“That’s where people go when they need to feel better: home.”

“But your home is in New York.”

“Home can be a person, too. That’s what you are for me.”

I’m his queen…and he’d kill his own king for me.

But maybe this isn’t a random declaration.

Maybe it’s a plan.

The arrogant, entitled, contemptuous look certain wealthy people wear. That expression of exaggerated self-importance you have when you’re going around being billionare-y all over the place and sneering at the common folk like me.”

His eyes darken, and so does his energy. He gazes at me in silence for a moment, then says, “You’re anything but common. And I’d never sneer at you, Emery. Never at you.”

You’re something much better than beautiful. And when we’re married, I’ll tell you what it is.”

“Yes. I want you to hire my best friend’s husband to work for your company.”

“Done. Next?”

I blink in surprise. “Don’t you even want to know what he does?”

“I don’t care what he does. We’ll find a position for him. And we’ll pay him double his former salary.”

That’s too important to go unchallenged. “Oh, yeah? What if he was making a million a year?”

Callum sighs.

“Okay, fine, he wasn’t making a million a year. I just don’t understand how you can promise to hire someone you don’t know anything about.”

In a hot, dark voice, he says, “Because my wife asked me to. And I’ll give her anything she wants.”