The Price of Your Closeness - She Came to Shut Down His Factory. She Never Expected Who She Would Trust.
By Laura Bellini
Length8h 33m
About this audiobook
Natalia Radecka has built her career on difficult decisions. She enters companies when the numbers no longer work, separates emotion from evidence, and does what others would rather avoid. When she arrives at Wierzbicki Automatyka, her assignment seems brutally simple: verify the final figures, prepare the shutdown, and help bring more than a hundred jobs to an end.
Then she meets Tomasz Wierzbicki.
The thirty-eight-year-old engineer and owner of the factory refuses to accept that his company is beyond saving. He has spent years rebuilding a family business that nearly collapsed before, and he knows every production line, every weakness, and many of the people who depend on the plant. Natalia expects resistance. What she does not expect is evidence that the reports behind the liquidation decision may not reflect reality.
A customer supposedly lost is still under contract. Inventory appears undervalued. Production capacity has been presented in a way that makes one of the strongest lines look weak. A financial report carries Tomasz’s signature even though he insists he never approved it. And the deeper Natalia looks, the harder it becomes to dismiss the discrepancies as simple mistakes.
Someone had access to the numbers. Someone benefited from making the factory look worse than it was. And someone seems increasingly determined to make Natalia stop asking questions.
Forced to work together, Natalia and Tomasz discover that professional distrust is easier to manage than the attraction growing between them. He is stubborn, controlling, and far too accustomed to carrying every decision alone. She protects herself with procedures, evidence, and boundaries precise enough to survive any crisis. Yet the more they uncover, the more those defenses begin to reveal what they were built to protect.
Their growing closeness creates a new risk. Natalia’s independence can be questioned. Tomasz’s judgment can no longer be separated cleanly from what he feels for her. And when trust is broken, neither desire nor an apology will be enough to repair it.
The Price of Your Closeness is a contemporary adult romance about attraction under pressure, the cost of truth, professional loyalty, and two people learning that trust is not blind faith. It is something built through choices, boundaries, consequences, and the willingness to give up control when holding on too tightly could destroy what matters most.
This publication was prepared using tools that support the creative process, including artificial intelligence solutions. The final concept, structure and editing are the responsibility of the author.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 33 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 3, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRO
2Chapter 1 - Numbers That Don't Add Up
3Chapter 2 - Traces of Other People’s Decisions
4Chapter 3 - December
5Chapter 4 - Things That Never Make It into the Report
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6Chapter 5 - The Price of a Signature
7Chapter 6 - Seven Days
8Chapter 7 - New Oversight
9Chapter 8 - The Boundary You Choose for Yourself
10Chapter 9 - Version of Events
11Chapter 10 - The Question Procedure Can’t Answer
12Chapter 11 - What Can’t Be Undone
13Chapter 12 - The Man Who Knew Too Much
14Chapter 13 - The Ground Beneath Your Feet
15Chapter 14 - The Terms of Staying
16Chapter 15 - The Things Konrad Didn’t Say
17Chapter 16 - The Price of Leverage
18Chapter 17 - When the Truth Stops Being Anonymous
19Chapter 18 - What You Give Up Willingly
20Chapter 19 - Without Leverage
21Chapter 20 - What Remains
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