As a notoriously secretive billionaire everyone thinks they know me. But beneath the fa?ade lies a tangled web of desires I've kept hidden, even from myself.

Until her. Piper. My own personal Pepper Potts.

She's my right hand, the one constant in a life carefully compartmentalized. But as we pretend she's my girlfriend for a family gathering at Sunset Lake—the very place I vowed to leave behind—lines blur, and the act we're putting on starts feeling dangerously real.

Amid laughter and old resort memories, Pipers presence disrupts my controlled existence. Her eyes, filled with mischief and intelligence, haunt me; her laughter fills up every empty space inside me.