I PAID THE CEO AFTER MIDNIGHT

After discovering her boyfriend’s public engagement to another woman, analyst Harper Quinn spends one reckless night with a stranger and leaves eighty dollars on his pillow. On Monday, she learns the stranger is Adrian Cross, LumaStay’s new CEO—and the company she helped save is hiding fabricated users, stolen forecasts, and a twelve-million-dollar scheme. A fake engagement may protect them from scandal long enough to expose the truth, but Harper refuses to trade one man’s ownership for another’s protection. With a hostile takeover approaching and employee futures on the line, she and Adrian must separate desire from power and build a company—and a relationship—that can survive full disclosure.