Assessing the Risks

Lucas

He let her go once

Five years ago, I walked away from the best thing that ever happened to me. Now she’s standing in my office again.

Valerie Ray was supposed to be a temporary forensic accountant brought in to investigate a new acquisition for Fantasies, Inc. not the woman I’ve spent years regretting. Working beside her every day is equal parts temptation and torture, especially when I realize one terrifying truth. I never stopped loving her.

As danger closes in and Valerie’s world begins to unravel, I refuse to stand on the sidelines again. I failed her once. I won’t do it again, even if protecting her means risking my heart all over again.

Valerie

Some risks can’t be calculated

Lucas destroyed me once and no amount of chemistry can erase the heartbreak of being abandoned for another woman. I’m here to do a job, keep my distance, and survive sharing an office with the man my body still responds to far too easily.

When Lucas says walking away from me was his biggest mistake, I want to believe him. My heart, still not healed, wants to trust him. But only time will heal our wounds.

Time we don’t have because the deeper I fall into this investigation and my family’s betrayal, the more I realize Lucas may be the only safe place I have left.