She came back to Harbor City after three years abroad to sign one contract—and walked straight into the man she broke. Gavin Laurent is N-Wave Media’s impossible heir: calm, rich, and merciless. When Lena Cervantes—his old college girlfriend who left him without explanation—shows up at an alumni reunion, Gavin’s response is surgical: he ruins the deal that keeps her job and threatens to make her “unable to fly” in this city. His revenge looks like power; her survival looks like salvage. What starts as corporate warfare turns into a dangerous game of proximity. Lena needs Gavin to sign to save a career she built from scratch; Gavin needs answers to a three-year wound he can’t stop picking. They bargain, fight, and accidentally burn every rule: public humiliations that flip into private care, cold threats that crack into midnight kisses, and a sober, impossible negotiation that ends with ink on a page—and new terms neither expected. This is a story of two stubborn people who broke each other and now must choose what to destroy—and what to keep. Who will get the signature? Who will get the apology? And what happens when the very person you vowed never to forgive becomes the only one who can save you?
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