Succumbed: A Billionaire Why Choose Romance (South Bay Billionaires Book 3)

Prologue

Icould count on one hand the men who had earned my trust. My father threw me out for my ambition, my younger brother gladly took what was rightfully mine, and others had wronged me at every turn.

If they didn’t underestimate and patronize me, they found me intimidating and were threatened by my success. As I grew my career, I buried the idea of romantic love in my ambition.

I set my boundaries, established my rules like a fortress around the truest parts of me, and approached romance as a transaction. For nearly two decades, I kept most men at arm’s length.

But this man? This beautiful, raw human being with his heart in his hand and an apologetic smile on his lips?

This man isn’t dismantling my barriers; he’s setting them on fire and reveling in the flames. I don’t know him as intimately as I do the other men I love, haven’t made it far past the walls he’s reinforced every step of our journey. But I see him.

I see how he thinks through a problem and stops at nothing until he solves it. How he gives his whole heart to what he believes in and fights fiercely for it without hesitation. How he’s unstoppable when challenged, no matter how unlikely the odds.

I’ve watched him put the people he loves before himself, time and again, even when it tears us apart in the process.

But I don’t mind a little pain with my pleasure.

Thanks to them, I crave it.