Dictated Desires

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Synopsis

Emily has harbored a not so secret, burning crush on her best friend Cassie's older brother for a while. Asher is calm, steady, and completely off-limits, until one heated night after a party shatters the boundaries between them. One taste of his touch is enough to ruin her. Because beneath Asher's composed exterior lies a fiercely dominant and possessive side in the bedroom that thrills and terrifies her wild spirit. What was meant to be a single passionate mistake quickly becomes impossible to forget. But Emily Wilder doesn't do love, not anymore. Not since her high school sweetheart, the boy she gave everything to, betrayed her in the cruelest way, leaving her broken and humiliated in front of their entire friends circle. After that, she vowed never to let anyone close enough to destroy her again. He wants her again and again, but she dodges every attempt. Until her troubled younger brother Theo asks her for help in getting a job. She has no choice but to ask Asher for help. He agrees but only on one condition: she has to date him for three months. Months later, Theo is accused of stealing from the company and Emily is torn between defending him as her brother and Asher. Their secret relationship is thrust into chaos and their worlds collide; her wild party lifestyle clashing with his need for control and order. Old wounds and new betrayals test their fragile bond. Emily must decide if she can completely surrender to the man who wants to protect her at all costs, while Asher has to learn to either trust her need for freedom or let her go.