My new boss is my dad's best friend.

I just resigned because I'm in love with him.

Graham Pierce attended our family functions for years.

Now he signs my paychecks.

He's cold.

Controlled.

Seventeen years older and completely certain he knows what's best for me.

Then a man from the company we just acquired corners me at a retreat. Graham steps in like a thunderstorm.

Something between us detonates.

We agree on a secret.

No emotions.

No complications.

It lasts about twelve minutes.

He softens in the dark in ways he'd never allow in daylight. He looks at me like I'm the only thing in the room worth protecting.

I stop pretending I don't want him, or that what we have feels like anything less than everything.

If my father finds out, Graham could lose more than just his best friend.

His reputation, the authority, his company.

And I could lose them both of them.