Contemporary Interracial Billionaire Romance — Open Door, Explicit — negotiated power, ownership, and the honest contract of devotion. · The Arrangement
Nothing to Guard
She paid a man to decide where her body went. She never told him where she'd been. Adaora Belfour built the platform that makes hidden money traceable—which is why the letters started, and why they have stopped arriving in her inbox and started arriving in her lobby. She won't buy a security firm's protocol, so she goes to Ardent and signs a bespoke ninety-day instrument instead: live-in, one detail, and inside the terms and nowhere else, Emmett Sutter's word on where she goes is absolute. Its only mechanism is a log she keeps in her own hand, complete, every day. The first disaster is how much she likes it—which is exactly why she starts keeping one unwatched hour back. A car taken alone. A meeting undisclosed. Small holes in the only document the arrangement runs on. It is not the man writing the letters who nearly gets her killed. It is the omissions, and the clause she wrote in herself forbidding him to investigate her own people, which a man this exact obeys to the letter for nineteen days while the danger walks in through her own calendar. Then the risk ends, and the instrument releases the moment it does. She will be safe by dawn. He will be gone by dawn. And nothing in ninety days of paper obliges a man who has spent his whole life on the correct side of a door to say mine out loud.
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Multicultural & InterracialRomantic SuspenseBlack & African AmericanContemporaryEroticaAlpha Male
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