Diamonds And Deception

She hired me to save her empire. I stayed to steal her heart.Because love doesn’t care about age gaps or billion-dollar bank accounts.Love doesn’t ask permission.I was twenty-five. Broke. Living in a Brooklyn walkup that smelled like regret and instant ramen.She was forty-two. Billionaire. Running a diamond empire from a glass tower in London.When Fiona Ashford’s company came under attack from Russian hackers, she didn’t hire a corporate security firm. She hired me, a kid from Chinatown who thought like the criminals bleeding her dry.I was supposed to catch the moles. Build firewalls. Fix her problems and disappear.I wasn’t supposed to fall for her.But Fiona wasn’t the ice queen everyone saw. Late nights turned into stolen glances. Strategy sessions became something dangerous. And the woman who commanded boardrooms with a look? She kissed me like she was drowning and I was oxygen.Every reason this was insane:❌She was my boss❌ Seventeen years older❌ Still grieving her dead husband❌Lived in a world where I didn’t belongEvery reason I didn’t care:✅ She saw me as more than a broke coder✅ She trusted me with her empire and her secrets✅ When bullets started flying, she fought beside me✅She made me want to be the man she believed I was.Then the threats turned deadly.Russian mafia in Amsterdam. Betrayal from inside her company. Death in a Berlin warehouse. We survived together or died together, no middle ground.She told me I was too young. I told her age was just numbers.She said we’d never work. I proved her wrong.She tried to protect me. I refused to leave.Because love doesn’t care about age gaps or billion-dollar bank accounts.Love doesn’t ask permission.And sometimes, the most dangerous thing you can do is fall for the one person you were never supposed to want.A complete standalone billionaire romantic suspense. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed.✅