The CEO's Ruthless Heart
A Grumpy-Sunshine Pairing, Betrayal Mafia RomanceBy Sabina Cross
Length7h 12m
About this audiobook
What is a man in a charcoal suit doing in a diner at six in the morning, and why does the woman proofing dough at the prep table already know the answer?
The bell above the door jingles like a warning. Clara has her back to it, wrist-deep in dough, and she knows that sound the way she knows the first crack of a thunderstorm. Wrong frequency, wrong time. At six in the morning the only people who should be coming through that door are her line cooks and the early-shift waitress.
Not a man whose suit costs more than her monthly rent on the apartment above the garage.
She wipes her hands and turns. Julian Croft stands just inside the doorway with rain beading on his shoulders, one hand resting on the back of a booth as though deciding whether to sit down or buy the place.
*You have five minutes, Mr. Croft.*
He does not flinch. Men like him do not flinch when women like her draw lines.
*Mrs. Lindstrom. I appreciate you seeing me.*
*I didn't agree to see you. You're here.*
What follows: a rule she broke before she understood it was a rule, a receipt she should have shredded, a secret belonging to a very large and very quiet man, a lawyer who knows more than is healthy, a trap she walks into wide awake, a morning she lets somebody stay, and a question she cannot answer in front of her own daughter.
A filing date on a company registration. October the seventeenth. Yesterday. The same day he kissed her in his penthouse with his hand warm on her cheek.
*A holding company registered to a wife's maiden name. She's been paid to betray you.*
He reads the message and sets the phone down and watches the rain.
He can undo the deal. He can remove the people who arranged it. He can make certain nobody comes near her or the child again. None of that entitles him to be forgiven, and nobody in this book is pretending otherwise.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Mystery and Thriller
Length7 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Door I Swore I’d Never Open
3Chapter 2 - The Rule I Broke Before Breakfast
4Chapter 3 - A Receipt I Should Have Burned
5Chapter 4 - The Bear Man’s Secret
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6Chapter 5 - The Lawyer Who Knows Too Much
7Chapter 6 - The Trap I Walked Into
8Chapter 7 - The Morning She Let Me Drive
9Chapter 8 - A Question I Couldn’t Answer
10Chapter 9 - The Fire She Kept Burning
11Chapter 10 - The Night We Chose Each Other
12Chapter 11 - The Betrayal Wrapped in a Bonus
13Chapter 12 - The Truth I Paid To Bury
14Chapter 13 - The Offer I Almost Took
15Chapter 14 - The Wound We Shared
16Chapter 15 - The Drop That Broke the Promise
17Chapter 16 - The Screen I Couldn’t Unsee
18Chapter 17 - The Fight Before the Fall
19Chapter 18 - The Ransom of a Name
20Chapter 19 - The Car That Cost Everything
21Chapter 20 - The Email That Changed the Rules
22Chapter 21 - The Press Conference That Sacrificed Everything
23Chapter 22 - The Door We Opened Together
24The End
25About the Author
26Also by Sabina Cross
27Acknowledgements
28A Note from the Author
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