Serena has always hidden her craving for someone to claim her completely, but Vincent Ainsworth sees straight through the careful walls she built after years of instability. The commanding older man tied to her family circle issues low directives during their estate meetings that make her pulse quicken with forbidden need.

Each time his palm presses against the small of her back while they review the heavy folders on the desk, the pull grows stronger and her obedience slips further. He wants her to call him daddy, to let him reshape her compliance into something deeper and more intimate than she has ever allowed.

The safety of the assets and the safety in his arms now rest on the same choice she cannot bring herself to voice.