Nights With Him

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I didn't know who the smoldering man in the expensive suit was that first night.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Only that he was commanding.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Intense.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And exactly what I needed to forget my heartbreak.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But there's no forgetting him the next day when Jack Sullivan walks into my office.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Philanthropic billionaire brilliant businessman my brand-new client...</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And off-limits in every possible way.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>We should have walked away.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Instead we made a new arrangement.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Thirty nights. No promises.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Just stolen moments in penthouses in Paris hotel rooms on Manhattan balconies.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But the deeper we go the harder it is to pretend this is just physical.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Because when Jack starts to share the things he loves with me-the symphony books late nights exploring the city-he's impossible to resist.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And the more nights we spend tangled in pleasure the more he owns my once-guarded heart.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Soon I start to believe in something more.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But Jack doesn't do love.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>His past still owns too much of him.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And no matter how deep we fall some risks feel too impossible to take.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Unless I can convince him that what we have is worth breaking every rule.</span></p>