Chloe’s perfect life is a beautiful, silent lie. Her marriage to a good, gentle man is haunted by a single, immutable his sterility. The clinical donor catalogs he offers are an insult to the primal, carnal act of creation she secretly craves. It’s not just a child she aches for; it’s the raw, biological collision.
Then there is Alex. Her boss. A titan of industry, and the alpha of her world. He is everything her husband is formidable, powerful, and radiating a predatory confidence that terrifies and intoxicates her. He sees the desperate hunger she tries to hide, the need that goes far beyond motherhood.
He doesn't offer sympathy. He offers a solution. A shocking, unspeakable arrangement stripped of all a more direct protocol.