He made a bet about her best friend's body. Now he wants a chance with hers.
Nina Okafor doesn't do second chances. She runs Shaw Events, she holds her own, and she learned a long time ago exactly what kind of woman a man like Jason Whitmore keeps — and it isn't her. Not in the light. Not in front of people who matter.
So when they end up in the same hotel bar after a charity gala, with no names exchanged and nothing at stake, one night feels like something she can survive intact.
She's wrong.
Jason Whitmore has spent the last year becoming someone different. Not because anyone asked him to — because he stood in a parking garage with a broken nose and a clear accounting of the man he'd been, and decided that man wasn't worth keeping. He's done the work. He's burned the bridges. He's ready.
He just needs Nina to believe him.
She doesn't. Not yet. She has every reason not to, and she is very, very good at holding a line.
He intends to be patient enough to earn the crossing.
The One is the book the So, About Last Night series has been building toward — the story of the man at the center of the original bet, and the woman who will only ever be chosen in full or not at all.
To mark ten books in the series, Raven DeNoir has expanded this final chapter into a full-length novella — more space, more heat, more time inside the relationship that had to earn every page. This is not a quick burn. It's the whole fire.
If you've been with this series from the beginning, this is the ending you stayed for.
If you're starting here — Nina will catch you up on everything that matters.
Nina Okafor doesn't do second chances. She runs Shaw Events, she holds her own, and she learned a long time ago exactly what kind of woman a man like Jason Whitmore keeps — and it isn't her. Not in the light. Not in front of people who matter.
So when they end up in the same hotel bar after a charity gala, with no names exchanged and nothing at stake, one night feels like something she can survive intact.
She's wrong.
Jason Whitmore has spent the last year becoming someone different. Not because anyone asked him to — because he stood in a parking garage with a broken nose and a clear accounting of the man he'd been, and decided that man wasn't worth keeping. He's done the work. He's burned the bridges. He's ready.
He just needs Nina to believe him.
She doesn't. Not yet. She has every reason not to, and she is very, very good at holding a line.
He intends to be patient enough to earn the crossing.
The One is the book the So, About Last Night series has been building toward — the story of the man at the center of the original bet, and the woman who will only ever be chosen in full or not at all.
To mark ten books in the series, Raven DeNoir has expanded this final chapter into a full-length novella — more space, more heat, more time inside the relationship that had to earn every page. This is not a quick burn. It's the whole fire.
If you've been with this series from the beginning, this is the ending you stayed for.
If you're starting here — Nina will catch you up on everything that matters.