Every Christmas, Edward Milano is haunted by the same memory—the night he took nineteen-year-old Ariana Alexandre to his bed… and shattered her with a single sentence the next morning: “It was just a one-night stand.”
Six years have passed, yet he has never forgotten the taste of her innocence, the fire she awoke in him, or the devastated look in her eyes. No woman has ever come close to replacing her. Edward thought he’d buried the regret—until fate drops Ariana back into his life, now a confident, guarded woman working inside the company he just acquired.
He wants her back. Desperately. Obsessively. Completely.
But Ariana isn’t the girl he remembers.
She hates him.
She avoids him.
And she’s hiding secrets—dangerous ones that could destroy everything Edward has built and ruin him for good.
Edward is determined to win her trust, her forgiveness, and her heart…
But Ariana’s past has teeth, and loving her might cost him everything.
A second chance at love—if the truth doesn’t tear them apart first.
