Contemporary Interracial Billionaire Romance — Open Door, Explicit — negotiated power, ownership, and the honest contract of devotion. · The Arrangement
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She has never signed a document she didn't first bleed on. He granted fifty-eight of her sixty-one edits inside an hour — and refused the only three that mattered.
Ayanna Sorrell litigates for a living, and she has never once been given a thing she didn't argue into existence. She learned the technique at a Brooklyn kitchen table, watching her mother win a forty-one-dollar hospital line item back on the third call, and she has used it on every clause of every deal she has ever touched. So when the discreet Upper East Side house Ardent matches her with Caspar Lindhart, she walks into the reading room with sixty-one redlines and a closing statement ready.
Caspar concedes nearly all of it without raising his voice or looking at the clock. What he will not strike: that her word stops everything and can never be spent as leverage; that aftercare is his to set, not hers to amend; and that once a week, out loud, she must ask him for something she wants with nothing offered in trade. Being refused — courteously, by a man who neither punishes the fight nor tires of it — turns out to be the most erotic thing that has ever happened to her.
Then she wins one. She argues him out of the single clause he has written into every contract of his life, and watching him strike it in his own handwriting is the worst thing that has ever happened to her. Ninety days are running out, and the only terms that would ever truly be hers are the ones she has never put in writing and cannot say out loud.
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 AmericanContemporaryErotica
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