The Debt He Owes
Ava Bennett watched her father lose everything the day Damian Cross signed the papers that broke him. She has hated that name for three years. She has built her whole....
Ava Bennett watched her father lose everything the day Damian Cross signed the papers that broke him. She has hated that name for three years. She has built her whole life around one promise: never let a Cross near her again. Then a bullet passes an inch from her head outside a courthouse, and the man she blames for her family's ruin throws his own body over hers to take the second shot. Someone wants Ava dead. The police have no leads. And the only man with the money, the security team, and the reason to keep her breathing is Damian Cross himself. He says he owes her. He says protecting her is the only way to fix what he broke. Ava does not believe a word of it, until she starts finding pieces of a story that does not match the one she has told herself for three years. Her father was not ruined by Damian Cross. He was ruined by someone hiding behind Damian's company, and Damian may have quietly kept her family fed for years without her knowing. Now she is trapped in his penthouse, guarded by his men, falling for the one man she swore to hate, while somewhere out there, the person who wants her dead is getting closer, and that person is much closer to Damian than either of them wants to admit.
