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Prologue

Royce

My friends call me Rolly Granted, I used to be chubby when I was a kid, but I grew out of that around ten The reason it started is because I co line of rich assholes The Davenport name is known all over New York, and my father is no exception I went to one of the most expensive private schools in the state, and when I showed up with the name Royce, it wasn’t hard to connect the dots to Rolls Royce Rolls turned into Rolly, and that was that It stuck froreith ended up being douchebags, a couple of them were ride or die

My two buddies and I got out of college and started up a consultancy firs ouldn’t do to s or ask our parents for it My buddies, Ezra and Donovan, careed anted to be our ownin a four hundred square foot studio with two ether and a bathroo in less than five years

I wanted to make my own contacts, and when I met Henry Osbourne at a charity function last year, I knew that working with him would benefit the both of us What I didn’t knoas that the day he asked me to come take a look at his departments was the day she would walk into my life

Pandora was unlike any woman I’d ever seen Her red hair was pulled back from her face, and her dark blue eyes were ri And sexy as fuck She was petite, but I got the impression from her stance—and from her handshake—that she could take me down in the blink of an eye God, she had no idea how much I wanted her to try

They say that like recognizes like, and the day I looked into her deep blues, I met my other half She wasto admit I had to have her Plain and simple Too bad it wasn’t that easy

Chapter 1

Pandora

“I swear on every bagel in Manhattan that if you coo to lunch, I’ll burn this building to the ground”

The new guy, Josh, looks at me with a blank expression on his face and takes a step back “So, um, now?”