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Claimed by the Boss
A Fake-Relationship Romance of a Runaway Bride and Workplace Tension, and the Truth Love Couldn't HideBy Albert A. Birchall
Length8h 58m
About this audiobook
The man who destroyed her father just offered her a job.
Madeline Hart was fifteen the morning her dad died, a cardboard box of truffles in his hands, a promise on her lips.
Keep making chocolate. That's how we survive.
Ten years later, she walks back through the revolving doors of the tower that buried him.
Vance Enterprises.
Built on her father's recipes.
Bought for pennies on the dollar by the man who let his loans crush him.
She doesn't belong here. The guard knows it. The whole gleaming lobby knows it.
But her sister Sophie's hospital bills don't care about belonging.
So Maddy takes the interview with Derek Vance, the king of bitter chocolate, the heir to everything that should have been hers, the last man on earth she wants to need.
Then he makes an offer she can't refuse and can't survive.
Be at his side. Sell the world a relationship that isn't real. Save her family, and become a fragile ember in a cage of imported vanilla.
It was supposed to be a transaction.
Ganache and guilt. A merger, nothing more.
Sign the papers, save Sophie, and never let him see the cracks.
But there's the ghost of her father in the final batch.
The matriarch's ultimatum.
The export of lies she can't keep straight.
The runaway part of her that swore she'd never let a Vance close, and the slow, terrifying truth that the bitter heart she came to ruin might be the only one that understands hers.
Then everything shatters on the cold marble floor, and Derek says the only word that could undo her: "Stay."
Now Maddy has to decide whether keeping a promise to the dead means destroying the man she was never supposed to want.
And whether the boss who took everything can finally give one thing back, the truth.
Claimed by the Boss is a steamy, emotional fake-relationship romance about a runaway bride, simmering workplace tension, a family legacy, a guarded heroine, enemies-to-lovers heat, and a truth that love couldn't hide.
Perfect for readers who love billionaire boss romance, fake relationships, enemies-to-lovers, family-legacy stakes, and slow-burn workplace tension with a happy ending. A standalone romance with an earned HEA.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 58 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
16Chapter 15 - The Festival of Fool’s Gold
2Chapter 1 - The King of Bitter Chocolate
17Chapter 16 - Retribution in Dark Chocolate
3Chapter 2 - Where the Air Tastes of Salt and Cocoa
18Chapter 17 - The Safety of a Whispered Melt
4Chapter 3 - A Fragile Ember at 104 Degrees
19Chapter 18 - The Weight of a Single Word
5Chapter 4 - The Debt That Tastes of Ash
20Chapter 19 - An Export of Lies
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6Chapter 5 - Ganache and Guilt
21Chapter 20 - The Ultimatum of the Matriarch
7Chapter 6 - A Cage of Imported Vanilla
22Chapter 21 - The Bitter Pill of Inheritance
8Chapter 7 - Where the Wine Is Red and the Truth Is Bitter
23Chapter 22 - Shattered on the Cold Marble Floor
9Chapter 8 - The Taste of a Promise Broken
24Chapter 23 - A New Foundation, No Cocoa
10Chapter 9 - Swoon and Scald
25Chapter 24 - The Ghost in the Final Batch
11Chapter 10 - The Lesson of the Broken Tempered Edge
26Chapter 25 - The Grand Gesture That Melts
12Chapter 11 - A Snapshot of Secrets
27Chapter 26 - The First Batch of Forever
13Chapter 12 - The Bitter Heart Recipe
28Chapter 27 - The Heart That Claimed
14Chapter 13 - More Than a Merger
29About the Author
15Chapter 14 - The Pledge That Breaks the Fast
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