Shain Rose

My enemy doesn't make the rules behind closed doors...
Even if he's my boss. 

Cade Armanelli might be an infamous hacker with billionaire status who operates better alone, but I earned my spot working alongside him...
Whether he likes it or not. 

It's precisely why I'm on the first plane to an undisclosed location for our cybersecurity team retreat. I'm ready to prove to our company that I can handle anything...
Except sharing a cabin and a bed with my meticulous, elusive boss. 

He's antisocial.
Ruthless. 
Enemy number one. 
Unfortunately, he's also number one in tatted, dark and dangerous. I quickly come to find that not only are his hacking skills perfection, but so is his performance in the bedroom. 

Not that it matters. I have a job to keep, a heart to protect, and our nation's data to secure.
Cade can't help me with any of that. 
He's a distraction. One I have to avoid...
Even if it means I'm spray painting a red line down our bed and keeping my boss on his side. 

Corrupted Chaos is a light mafia standalone romance with forced proximity steam, and a tech mogul that will fight and grovel for a HEA with his spitfire woman.  

Corrupted Chaos

a book won't be complete without a shitty ex

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But it wasn’t my fault. It was his. I held the phone up for him to see, only for him to reply with that line. “It’s not me. It’s you.”

My fault? How was him cheating on me my fault?

I practically stalked her digital presence, had notifications on my phone of what she did on the dark web, and checked security cameras every now and then when I was alerted of her facial recognition. She was a nuisance, and I told myself it was to keep her in check, but I realized then and there that she was my nuisance.

Then, I straightened my dumbass tie and stomped out of my office, ready to yell at anyone and everyone because my attitude was abominable after that call.

To need someone’s support, to ask for it, to want their approval, was never a good thing. Especially for someone like me. I could be let down. I knew that.

“Why fit in when you can stand out?” he asked. “You have more ability than any of those people out there.”

But Cade wore those damn glasses as he worked, and every now and then, he’d push them up the bridge of his nose like a drop-dead gorgeous geek I wanted to lick for the rest of the day.

He held out his phone. “If you can’t talk about it, put it in writing on a screen and let me read it.”

I took my time typing in his Notes app, tears streaming down my face. Yet, Cade wiped them away, one by one, over and over again. Patiently, softly, caringly.

“Izzy, you apologize to me for your anger as if it’s not the thing I like most about you.”

I heard a meow and looked down to see her black cat in the corner of the room. “Fuck me,” I grumbled before I swooped up the cat and stormed out.

I got back into my car, set the cat over on the seat in hopes it wouldn’t freak out. Instead, it just stared at me like I was a piece of shit. “I know I fucked up, okay? I’m going to get your mom back.”

Because there, in that SUV, I fell in love with loving her.

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