Length7h 58m
About this audiobook
Three years of work, one presentation he was not supposed to lose, and a name he buried long enough ago that hearing it out loud in a conference room stops his pulse.
*I think you're overestimating the value of tradition, Mr. Cross.*
Olivia Hart's voice cuts through the hum of the ventilation. She stands at the head of the table with one hand on a tablet and the other in the pocket of a navy blazer that cost more than his first car. Morning light off the floor-to-ceiling windows catches the amber in her eyes, and for a second he sees something the agency's profile did not prepare him for. Real focus, not the performative kind.
*I'm not disputing tradition, Ms. Hart. I'm questioning the viability of a restructuring plan that assumes your father's division heads will accept a twenty percent pay cut without walking.*
The three executives flanking her shift in their chairs. He has read all of their files. He has read hers twice.
Later, in the elevator, he thinks about how she said his name. Not Cross. Mr. Cross. The kind of distance that means somebody is already building walls.
Then he hears her voice through the conference room partition, and she is saying *Jonathan Cross* to somebody else.
That is the name he buried years ago. The name that connects him to her father. His own father was a partner at her family's company once, before everything went wrong, before Robert Hart pushed him out.
What follows: a charity he never volunteered for, a voicemail he cannot delete, a document that reframes the entire account, a photograph on a shelf, an accusation he cannot deny, a confession he did not plan, a gala that ends in ruins, a grave he cannot visit alone, and a war between two sisters that nobody in this building saw coming.
*You were lying awake at night planning this. What do you actually want?*
He could have lied. He could have said the truth, or justice, or the file his father hid.
Will what they built between the boardroom and the rooftop survive the moment the new board votes? Or does he take the company, settle the account, and say goodbye to the only person who ever asked him what he actually wanted?
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length7 hrs 58 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
2Chapter 1 - The Presentation I Wasn’t Supposed to Lose
3Chapter 2 - The Charity I Never Volunteered For
4Chapter 3 - The Voicemail I Couldn’t Delete
5Chapter 4 - The Document That Changed Everything
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6Chapter 5 - The Photo on the Shelf
7Chapter 6 - The Accusation I Couldn’t Deny
8Chapter 7 - The Truth I Should Have Told
9Chapter 8 - The Alliance I Never Expected
10Chapter 9 - The Man Who Knew Too Much
11Chapter 10 - The Call I Overheared
12Chapter 11 - The Gala I Almost Believed In
13Chapter 12 - The Leak I Couldn’t Plug
14Chapter 13 - The Confession I Didn’t Plan
15Chapter 14 - The Retreat Into Old Habits
16Chapter 15 - The Confrontation at the Gala Ruins
17Chapter 16 - The Grave I Couldn’t Visit Alone
18Chapter 17 - The Trap I Walked Into
19Chapter 18 - The Black Moment: Everything Burns
20Chapter 19 - The Cost of Redemption
21Chapter 20 - The Sisters’ War
22Chapter 21 - The New Board
23Chapter 22 - The Rooftop We Built
24Chapter 23 - The Legacy We Choose
25Epilogue
26The End
27About the Author
28Also by Adrienne Cole
29Acknowledgements
30A Note from the Author
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