✔ Age Gap ✔ Billionaire CEO ✔ Boss / Employee ✔ Forced Proximity ✔ Family Secrets ✔ Intense Emotional Romance ✔ Slow Burn
"Your father died owing four million euros. And now, Miss Ricci, that debt is yours."
Three weeks after my father's funeral, a lawyer knocked on my door and shattered the only version of my life I'd ever known.
Four million two hundred thousand euros in debt. Missing funds. Seven years of secrets hidden behind the smile of the most honest man I ever knew.
My father was an accountant. He lived carefully. And yet he left me an impossible sum — and a name I never imagined crossing.
Matteo Valenti.
Owner of a private bank his family built over four generations. A man the entire city respects and no one dares to challenge.
Cold. Controlled. Capable of reading people the way he reads contracts — line by line, down to what isn't written.
I went to him to negotiate. A payment plan. Anything that wouldn't cost me the house I grew up in.
He looked at me like he already knew me. Like he'd been waiting for me for years.
Then he made his offer: five years under contract. Under his supervision. Under his control. In exchange — my home, my name, and what's left of my father's memory.
I signed. Because it was the only thing I had left to do.
But the more days I spend at his side, the more I understand that Matteo Valenti didn't save me just to settle a debt.
He looks at me like I'm holding an answer he's been searching for his whole life. And I, who should hate him with everything I have… am starting to forget why.
Genre: Romance
"Your father died owing four million euros. And now, Miss Ricci, that debt is yours."
Three weeks after my father's funeral, a lawyer knocked on my door and shattered the only version of my life I'd ever known.
Four million two hundred thousand euros in debt. Missing funds. Seven years of secrets hidden behind the smile of the most honest man I ever knew.
My father was an accountant. He lived carefully. And yet he left me an impossible sum — and a name I never imagined crossing.
Matteo Valenti.
Owner of a private bank his family built over four generations. A man the entire city respects and no one dares to challenge.
Cold. Controlled. Capable of reading people the way he reads contracts — line by line, down to what isn't written.
I went to him to negotiate. A payment plan. Anything that wouldn't cost me the house I grew up in.
He looked at me like he already knew me. Like he'd been waiting for me for years.
Then he made his offer: five years under contract. Under his supervision. Under his control. In exchange — my home, my name, and what's left of my father's memory.
I signed. Because it was the only thing I had left to do.
But the more days I spend at his side, the more I understand that Matteo Valenti didn't save me just to settle a debt.
He looks at me like I'm holding an answer he's been searching for his whole life. And I, who should hate him with everything I have… am starting to forget why.
Genre: Romance
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