He hired me to teach him how to feel. I didn't expect to fall for a man who treats love like a laboratory experiment. He needed someone to teach him how to feel. I needed tuition money. Simple transaction. He'd pay. I'd show up. No strings, no complications, no feelings. Except Victor Ashford doesn't do simple. Twenty-five years older. Emotionally unavailable. Treats relationships like laboratory experiments, complete with checklists and control variables... moreHe hired me to teach him how to feel. I didn't expect to fall for a man who treats love like a laboratory experiment. He needed someone to teach him how to feel. I needed tuition money. Simple transaction. He'd pay. I'd show up. No strings, no complications, no feelings. Except Victor Ashford doesn't do simple. Twenty-five years older. Emotionally unavailable. Treats relationships like laboratory experiments, complete with checklists and control variables. He's everything I should walk away from. I showed up anyway. For the money. For the rent. For the student loans eating me alive while I'm working three jobs and barely sleeping four hours a night. Not because I wanted to fix him. Not because I saw past the expensive suits and perfect control to the man who'd been gutted by his ex-wife's abandonment. Definitely not because chemistry isn't just what I study. It's what happens every time he looks at me like I'm something worth solving. But when his past catches up with him, when his career implodes and the media turns our arrangement into ammunition, I have a choice to make. Walk away like everyone else did. Or stay for the man who hired me to teach him about love and ended up teaching me I'm worthy of it. This book is a standalone novel in the "Elite Arrangements" series. less
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