One Night With The Ruthless CEO

Author: Victoria

Chapter 1

Word Count: 1199 | Released on: 25/05/2026

utting through the blinds, a blade of light across the rumpled she

es fle

e that had turned him into a legend on the basketball court, the same quiet intensity that had made him a prodigy in the classroom. Back then, he had been the boy every girl wanted, the one who could have anyone. And she had been invisible. Until one d

r eyes had glittered with malice as she'd leaned in close at the gala. "Caitlin, darling, wasn't it you who used to follow Isaac around like a lovesick puppy in high school? Oh, that's right-you wrote him a love letter, didn't you? How wonderfully pathetic that must fee

er mouth to stifle a gasp. Carefully, she lifted his arm,

d wood floor when his voice, thic

are you

im. "Work," she stammere

r behind her. Leaning against the cool wood, she stared at her reflection. Her hair was a mess,

breathing ragged, the full weight of the night bef

a friend. Her father, before the bankruptcy, had been a donor. Now the invitation felt like a cruel joke, a c

well you've managed to maintain it." The laughter that followed had been like tiny shards of glass. And then, the whisper: "I heard what happened to your father. The bankruptcy and everything. It's

her in a student council election, or maybe it was just that Jenna had always been cruel to anyone she saw as beneath her. Now that Caitlin's family had los

Isaac had

ed at her-really looked at her-as if he remembered something she had long since given up hoping he would. He crossed the distance between them in a few effortless s

d. The cab ride to her apartment had been silent, but his hand had fou

matter to someone-anyone-in a world that had spent the last three years trying to erase her. And beneath that, buried so deep she barely

on the other side of a do

t, she emerged. Isaac was sitting up, leaning against the headboard, the sheet

the floor. "Last night... it was a mistake," she said, the words

ed, replaced by a sudden, chi

word was clipped, sha

ent, not daring to look back. She clattered down the thre

he subway station three blocks away. She swiped her MetroCard and squeezed onto a

ten years, she had only ever watched him from a distance. She had written him a letter he never acknowledged, nursed a crush he never noticed, and told hersel

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“Since her father's bankruptcy, Caitlin Knight had been drowning in her mother's astronomical sanitarium bills, clinging to a junior design job just to survive. But her manager handed her a sickening ultimatum: secure the massive Zenith Corporation contract by attending a private dinner with their top executive, Donnie Hicks, or be fired by morning. The "dinner" turned out to be a calculated trap. The private dining room was soundproof, and a hidden jammer completely killed her cell service. Hicks didn't even glance at her carefully prepared design proposals. Instead, he forced her to drink, his eyes gleaming with greedy intent as he threatened to blacklist her from the industry if she didn't comply. Then, under the heavy mahogany table, his hot, sweaty hand clamped onto her calf and began sliding deliberately up her thigh. The humiliation was suffocating, a hot bile rising in her throat, but the sheer injustice of it all ignited a volcanic surge of rage in her chest. Why did she have to endure this torment just to keep her mother alive? "You touch me again and I'll call the police." Caitlin violently yanked his hand away, grabbed her briefcase, and fled into the cold Manhattan night, tears streaming down her face. She thought her career was entirely over and she had nowhere left to run. But what Donnie Hicks didn't know was that the elusive billionaire CEO of Zenith Corporation, Isaac Harrell, was the same brooding boy who used to sit behind Caitlin in high school-and he was already coming for her.”