I was hired to audit the books.
I found the kind of secrets men kill to keep buried.
Vale Global looked clean from the outside—glass, money, control, the kind of company that knows how to hide rot beneath polished floors and perfect numbers. I was brought in for a sealed internal review, the kind that pays well, moves fast, and usually ends with someone in finance pretending to be surprised.
Then I found the hidden ledger.
One wrong file tied me to off-book payments, shadow routes, and a power structure built on fear, leverage, and men who don’t survive mistakes. And at the center of it all stood Damian Vale—older, colder, richer than anyone should be, and far too controlled for a man whose empire is bleeding under the surface.
He calls it protection when my exits disappear.
I call it what it is: control with better tailoring.
Now there’s a leak inside his company, an enemy willing to use my real life against me, and a man who keeps pulling me deeper into a world where desire, power, and survival no longer behave like separate things.
I know what Damian is.
That should be enough to keep me away from him.
It isn’t.
Under His Authority is a dark mafia office romance with age-gap tension, forced proximity, obsessive chemistry, a possessive antihero, a morally gray heroine, corporate power games, high-stakes suspense, and a slow-burn, high-heat descent into dangerous love.
Genre: Romance
I found the kind of secrets men kill to keep buried.
Vale Global looked clean from the outside—glass, money, control, the kind of company that knows how to hide rot beneath polished floors and perfect numbers. I was brought in for a sealed internal review, the kind that pays well, moves fast, and usually ends with someone in finance pretending to be surprised.
Then I found the hidden ledger.
One wrong file tied me to off-book payments, shadow routes, and a power structure built on fear, leverage, and men who don’t survive mistakes. And at the center of it all stood Damian Vale—older, colder, richer than anyone should be, and far too controlled for a man whose empire is bleeding under the surface.
He calls it protection when my exits disappear.
I call it what it is: control with better tailoring.
Now there’s a leak inside his company, an enemy willing to use my real life against me, and a man who keeps pulling me deeper into a world where desire, power, and survival no longer behave like separate things.
I know what Damian is.
That should be enough to keep me away from him.
It isn’t.
Under His Authority is a dark mafia office romance with age-gap tension, forced proximity, obsessive chemistry, a possessive antihero, a morally gray heroine, corporate power games, high-stakes suspense, and a slow-burn, high-heat descent into dangerous love.
Genre: Romance
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