A Dare Like No Other (Unrequited Sin #10)

One impulsive night was supposed to stay exactly that.

A night. No names, no numbers, no promises — that was the deal Sloane Whitaker made with herself after a wedding-day betrayal sent her running across the country. A stranger on a hotel rooftop, a city she barely knew, and a few stolen hours meant to end before sunrise and never be spoken of again.

Two months later, a positive pregnancy test changes everything. And the father turns out to be the one man she never expected to see again: Draven Mercer, the CEO of the company that just hired her.

He’d had her investigated. He’d built her dream job from the ground up just to bring her into his building. He’s been watching her for weeks before she ever set foot in his office — and he has absolutely no intention of apologizing for any of it.

Draven Mercer doesn’t do anything by half measures.When he decides he wants something, he goes after it with the same relentless precision that built his empire — and the moment he learns Sloane is carrying his child, that precision turns entirely toward her.Doctor’s appointments. Meals she didn’t ask for.A locked door he won’t compromise on. A folder of his own secrets handed over before she even asked for them.He shows up every single morning, whether she wants him there or not.

Sloane isn’t interested in being managed.Sharp, guarded, and still healing from a fiancé who humiliated her in front of everyone she loved, she pushes back against every inch of ground Draven tries to take — and the more she resists, the more determined he becomes to prove he isn’t like the men who came before him.

What starts as an impossible, tangled arrangement slowly becomes something neither of them planned for.Draven’s control was never really about ownership — it’s about a man who grew up watching his father lose everything by never showing up, determined not to make the same mistake twice.And the closer Sloane lets him get, the more she starts to believe that this time, devotion doesn’t have to mean disappearing.

But trust isn’t rebuilt with grand gestures alone.Old wounds resurface — an ex-fiancé who refuses to stay in the past, a mother who deserves the truth, a family on both sides learning how to make room for each other — and Sloane has to decide whether she’s brave enough to stop bracing for the ending and let herself believe in the beginning instead.

Because Draven Mercer doesn’t love halfway.

And now that Sloane is carrying his child, there is nothing he won’t do to make sure she never has to face any of it alone again.