The man I've spent fifteen years pretending I don't want just offered to get me pregnant.

Dominic Rowe is eleven years older, my brother's best friend, and the billionaire CEO who signs my paychecks. He's the last man I should choose, and the only man I trust.

Five years ago, I learned what happens when a powerful man controls your heart, your career, and your future. And I've spent the last four rebuilding my life so completely that no one could ever take it from me again.

Now I'm ready to become a mother, and an anonymous donor offers the safest path.

No relationship. No dependence. No one close enough to destroy everything I've built.

Then Dominic finds the donor binder on my desk and makes an offer of his own.

Choose him.

He doesn't just want to donate and disappear. He wants to be the father. My equal co-parent. A permanent part of the future I designed to need no one.

So we create eleven pages of rules. Separate attorneys. Career protections. Shared decisions. No romantic expectations.

And our first attempt happens at a clinic, where everything can remain perfectly controlled.

Until Dominic admits he'd rather get me pregnant "the old-fashioned way."

There's no clause covering what happens when he touches me.
No contingency plan for fifteen years of forbidden attraction.
And absolutely nothing protecting my heart when he orders me to say his name.

Dominic was only supposed to be my co-parent. Now he wants the life we were never supposed to build.

He wants me.

And there isn't a contract in the world that can make loving him safe.