Chapter 157:

Chapter 157: Chapter 157:

Aria pov

"Watching you command that boardroom. Seeing you handle those reporters without flinching. Standing beside you as an equal partner." He pulled me close, his hands settling on my waist with a kind of restrained deliberateness — like a man exercising the very last of his considerable willpower. "You’re magnificent. Powerful and brilliant and so goddamn sexy when you’re in CEO mode that I could barely think straight."

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