I left. She stayed.
I'm no longer the poor kid that lost her. I've made myself into a man that won't be ignored.
Now her father is dead, the MacLaine empire is crumbling, and Adair's inheritance depends on the company's largest investor: me.
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My whole life changed the night I met Sterling Ford. Brilliant and intense, he came to Valmont with nothing but a scholarship and a chip on his shoulder. He was a grenade and I wanted to pull the pin.
We were doomed from the first kiss.
I've waited for my chance to seize my freedom and now it's finally in reach-until the last person I ever wanted to see again walks into my father's funeral: him.
From New York Times bestselling author Geneva Lee comes the first chapter in an emotional, breathtaking love story that will leave you obsessed and begging for more.