Contemporary Interracial Billionaire Romance — Open Door, Explicit — negotiated power, ownership, and the honest contract of devotion. · The Arrangement
Every Word Aloud
Three terms. Three signatures. And a fourth contract lying unsigned on the table, because the house rule says they have to read every word aloud — and neither of them will start.
Nkemdi Ozoma runs the hardest reservation in Manhattan: eleven seats, four months out, a kitchen she funded on a credit card and an investor she fired herself. For three seasons she has also belonged to Lachlan Barratt — by contract, by the gold cuff on her wrist, by a schedule she wrote precisely so she could be put down at an agreed hour instead of simply left.
Renewal night is the last Sunday of the year. Then a blizzard shuts the city, the house goes dark, and there is no proprietress, no protocol and no car — only two people negotiating face to face for the first time. He has already had the papers redrawn with the exclusivity clause struck out. A mercy, he calls it, from a man who has never promised her anything past a season.
When his partners call through the storm to force him to choose between her restaurant and his life's work, Lachlan draws up a release instead of a renewal — and hands Nkemdi the freedom she always claimed she wanted, on the exact night she understands she was never bargaining for freedom at all.
At midnight the house calls for their decision. She refuses both papers and makes the counteroffer of her life.
A steamy, open-door BWWM romance of negotiated power, ownership, and the honest contract of devotion. Perfect for fans of Katee Robert and Rebekah Weatherspoon.
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Multicultural & InterracialBlack & African AmericanBillionaires & Millionaires
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