The Nightclub Owner's Vice

After one man broke my heart, I swore I would never give anyone else the chance to do it again.

People have called me cold and difficult when they thought I could not hear, but I know what I want, and beating my brother for control of the real estate company our mother built leaves no room for love.

Then Dean Carter enters my life: quiet, powerful, and already in command of some of the city's most successful nightclubs and restaurants, he has decided I am his.

Other men keep hoping I will turn softer and easier to handle, while he is pulled in by the same sharp tongue that drives them away.

I insist I want nothing from him, yet his fierce devotion wears me down until the walls I built no longer hold.

By the time I admit he has become my weakness, I am already the vice he refuses to surrender, and I still do not know what his obsession has driven him to do—or whether I will forgive him when I find out.