Contemporary Interracial Billionaire Romance — Open Door, Explicit — negotiated power, ownership, and the honest contract of devotion. · The Arrangement
The House Rule
She has been the least breakable person in every room for nineteen years. She came to Ardent to buy one room where she doesn't have to be.
Nnenna Achebe-Wren owns her media group outright — for eleven more weeks, until a share conversion hands an activist investor the leverage to sell her newsroom for parts. So she does the one thing she has never done in her life: she writes down what she wants, by hand, and lets the proprietress of a discreet Upper East Side house read it back to her out loud. Ninety days. Her clauses, her protocol, her word. She holds the contract. She clasps the gold cuff on his wrist.
Lucien Lockridge tunes concert pianos — a life of exacting service performed on his knees in front of things worth more than he is, and he has never once felt small doing it. He is not the man who doesn't flinch. He flinches every time, visibly, and then tells her exactly what landed and exactly why he wants to continue. Being read is the one thing she has no defence against.
Then a photograph of him leaving her building at six in the morning reaches a profile writer, and the story that runs will be that the hardest woman in media buys men. Nnenna can win the vote alone. She always has. What she cannot do — what the house rule will not let anyone do for her — is say the sentence herself, out loud, in a room with the lights on.
A steamy, open-door BWWM romance of negotiated power, protocol, and ownership — with the dynamic rotated: the Black heroine holds the contract. Perfect for fans of Tiffany Reisz and Rebekah Weatherspoon.
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Multicultural & InterracialBillionaires & MillionairesBlack & African American
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