Beneath His Touch

was still spinning. She'd barely had time to process the weight of her conversation with Stefan Blackwood be

than a decade ago, Blackwood Enterprises had disrupted industries from AI development to cybersecurity, from biotech to the next generation of smart devices. The company's headquarters-this building

ackwood... He

more remarkable was the speed at which he'd achieved it. He hadn't inherited wealth or connections. He had created Blackwood Enterprises from the ground up, starting with a single, revolutionary software program that helped streamline data secur

lopment, hiring only the brightest minds and creating a culture where innovation was the only thing that mattered. Rumors of their work with artifici

eone like Stefan Blackwood, at a company like his-this wasn't just a chance to wo

n-was another

per. Something magnetic. His quiet authority, his razor-sharp intelligence, the way he seemed to see through people, and yet revealed so l

rom her thoughts. She glanced at the screen a

d you talk about the

endless stream of bills, Ben's worsening condition, her own exhaustion from juggling jobs and school, all of it pr

now soon. Ben's fine. I

rned back to the elevator,

that had simmered between her and Stefan Blackwood. But it was hard to ignore. Hard to ignore the way his eyes lingered on her,

to wait t