Rule #1: Don’t get drunk after your boyfriend dumps you. Rule #2: Don’t sleep with the hot stranger you meet. Rule #3: Make damn sure he isn’t your future boss— Or engaged. Or the father of your child. I walked into that interview thinking I had nothing to lose—until I saw him. Lucas Black. CEO. Billionaire. The man who thought I was a gold-digging nobody and kicked me out of his bed. And just when I started to prove myself, his fiancée made damn sure I was fired. Pregnant. Jobless.—I disappeared before he could learn the truth. Now, five years later, I’m back— Vice president of his biggest competitor. A mother. And definitely not the girl he gets to screw over twice. Until he caught me in a coffee shop, grabbed my wrist, and pressed a kiss to the same hand I slapped him with. We would’ve gone too far. Again. If not for the tiny voice behind the door asking— “Mommy… who’s that man?”