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The Plan to Capture the CEO

The Plan to Capture the CEO

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She came back to capture the CEO. The wedding was only the trap.

Eden Cross put on a white dress for the Pierce heir and looked at the front row.

Adrian Knox sat there in a perfect suit, applauding. Calm. Five years since he watched her board a plane to London. Five years since the apology she was too weak to hear. He still wouldn't move.

So she pulled the ring off, walked it up to his face, and made him choose.

He chose. He stole the bride in front of a church full of people who sign headlines. He drove her to City Hall and told her she was his for this life and every life after.

They never made it out of the car.

Now the company has a name for her. His adoptive father wants him back behind a desk. She's pregnant, and Adrian still will not say he loves her.

Eden isn't worried.

The engagement was fake. The altar was bait. Capturing the CEO was the plan.

She doesn't want a rescue. She wants him to walk over on his own and say the rest out loud.

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Chapter 1

I gagged.

The dry heave cut Adrian Knox off for the fifth time. The acquisition had just reached the page on valuation.

His brow drew in. The rest of that ice-cut face gave nothing away.

Executives lined both sides of the long table. Every one of them found the wood grain fascinating.

Adrian set his pen down. He didn't raise his voice.

"We're done."

Chairs scraped. The door opened and shut.

In under a minute, the glass office a hundred floors up held two people.

I slouched into the chair and crossed my legs. The silk skirt rode up another half inch, baring a length of thigh, pale and long and straight.

All I felt was irritated.

The taro boba in front of me used to be the thing I loved. Iced. Sweet. The straw clicked when it went in. Today it had been wrong from the first sip. Sugar climbed back up my throat.

Adrian came around the table with a black look on his face. His shadow dropped over me and the cup together.

"What did you eat that wasn't clean?"

I looked up.

Up close, he was even better-looking. Harder to look at for long. I had seen that face for years. At eighteen. In the church. This past year, in the car, in the mirror, whenever he came down over me.

It still stunned me.

I gagged.

My stomach answered him. Louder.

I swallowed it down and shot him a look. "You ought to know what got eaten last night."

Adrian went still.

A suspicious red climbed from the base of his ear, fast enough to watch.

He stared. His mouth moved. What he finally forced out was thin.

"Eden Cross. Can you act like a decent person?"

Most of the irritation scattered.

"Sure." I flicked the hair off my shoulder and tipped my chin. "Crooked morals. A straight face. Isn't that your favorite kind of woman?"

He didn't answer. His hand went to his tie.

Heat, maybe. Or the line had burned him.

Dark silk hung loose against his chest. It looked filthy.

I dropped my voice.

"While we're here, you still owe me a word." I let it land. "Sister-in-law."

Maybe that was what hit him.

Adrian stared. His throat rolled, hard. His eyes went dark by inches.

He braced both hands on the arms of my chair and shut me inside the air around him.

His gaze slid anyway. Down the silk over my chest. Down to my bare thighs.

I didn't move.

I let the breath hit my skin. The irritation actually let go.

Then my hand got there before my head did.

Through his trousers, I grabbed his ass.

The muscle under my palm locked.

Adrian's jaw went tight. He pulled in a breath and held it, at war with himself for a few seconds, and reached for his belt.

The metal catch opened in the empty room. Quiet. Clear.

His hand wasn't steady when the belt came free.

The red had reached his neck. His jaw was clenched to the bone, angry, or barely holding on.

Champagne silk bunched at the top of my thighs. Cool on the skin. Then his hand warmed it.

"Eden Cross. You asked for this."

Outside went to pieces.

Footsteps jerked sharp. Someone coughed. Someone knocked and took the hand back in midair.

After that the whole corridor sounded scorched. The steps were a mess.

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17 Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    I gagged. The dry heave cut Adrian Knox off for the fifth time. The acquisition had just reached the page on valuation. His brow drew in. The rest of that ice-cut face gave nothing away.

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  2. Chapter 2

    Afterward, both of us were soaked in sweat. This time was different. Adrian was gentle. He was also, in a way that wore me down, slow.

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  3. Chapter 3

    I barely ate. The food was plain. The soup wasn't sweet. My stomach still felt stopped up with something I couldn't name. Adrian picked the bones out of the fish and set the pieces in my bowl.

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  4. Chapter 4

    Thursday, Sienna Cross called Adrian's phone. "Mr. Knox, I'm downstairs." My sister's voice came through the receiver clean. "Eden's coming back to the house with me today.

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  5. Chapter 5

    After the snatch, we stayed on each other day and night. For the first time, Adrian missed the company seven days running. The company blew up. Even his adoptive father, old Mr.

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  6. Chapter 6

    Sunday came fast. Early, Adrian's car stopped at the Cross house. Sienna leaned in the doorway and blocked him. "She's not here. She left first thing." Adrian asked where I had gone.

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  7. Chapter 7

    Before I met Adrian, I thought life was pretty pointless. My family had money. My father was the richest man in the city. I never lacked clothes or food.

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  8. Chapter 8

    The cold suited him. So did the pride. He barely dealt with anyone in the class. If he didn't understand a problem, he would rather grind at it alone than open his mouth and ask me.

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  9. Chapter 9

    I decided that look on the court had been for me. So the day after I learned about his thing with cleanliness, I set breakfast on Adrian's desk and explained it to him, serious.

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  10. Chapter 10

    I got through the worst weekend of my eighteen years. Saturday I went to the most popular cinema in the city and waited the whole day. I never saw Paige or Adrian.

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  11. Chapter 11

    On the way home, even Ray, the driver, could tell I was in a good mood. "Miss Eden's happy today?" I hung on my sister's arm and wheedled. "Yeah. It's rare you came to get me.

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  12. Chapter 12

    After we decided, Adrian and I got more secret, not less. It was as if the thing belonged to the two of us and no one else, so neither of us said it. I still brought him breakfast every day.

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  13. Chapter 13

    I hadn't even finished being hurt when the Knox family came down. The debt was huge. His father jumped from the top of the office building. Not long after, Adrian's mother left with someone else.

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  14. Chapter 14

    I lay in bed and looked at the ceiling. The last five years felt like a dream. Adrian brought lunch himself, and dinner. Every movement was careful to the point of fear.

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  15. Chapter 15

    I woke again to voices in the living room. Old Mr. Pierce's voice came through the door. Even from a distance I could hear him holding the anger down. "Adrian, you snatched your brother's wedding.

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  16. Chapter 16

    The coffee shop. Leo saw Adrian behind me, nodded like he had already understood, and didn't bother to lower his voice. "Eden, we agreed on this.

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  17. Chapter 17

    I had known the truth for a long time. The second year I was in London, when my sister came to see me. She couldn't stand watching me hurt, so she told me. The plot had been real.

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