Cleo Williams is done shrinking. After another man calls her “too much,” she takes one night for herself—no names, no strings, just a stranger intense enough to match her fire. By morning she’s sure it was the right kind of mistake, until she walks into work and finds him again as Markus McAllister: private, powerful, and the new CEO of Sterling & Oak. Same building, same hierarchy, and the same mouth that ruined her for ordinary men, now attached to the signature on every company email.

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Cleo has spent years doing the work, watching weaker men take the credit, and surviving on Arizona Green Tea and sheer competence. She is not about to throw her career under a bespoke charcoal suit—but Markus doesn’t do casual, doesn’t do second chances, and has no interest in pretending Friday night didn’t happen. One night was supposed to be simple. Wanting him at the office is anything but.