The Boardroom Ultimatum

by Ellis Carrington

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Forty-seven floors above a sleeting Manhattan night, contract attorney Wren has one job: keep her head down, fix the merger, and earn the permanent offer she has spent two years chasing. Then she finds a cream envelope tucked into the wrong coat-check ticket — a polished engagement announcement bearing her name alongside her notoriously demanding CEO’s, and a handwritten threat to leak it to the tabloids at midnight if a missing signature doesn’t land.

By the time Otto Ellery’s family makes good on that threat, Wren is already locked inside Gilded Pact Tower’s glass-walled executive suite with the man himself, surrounded by auditors, rain-blurred skyline, and a ticking SEC clock. The board’s verdict is swift and ruthless: play the happy couple or watch investor confidence — and Wren’s career — shatter before dawn.

Negotiating the terms of a fake engagement with Otto is dangerous. Sharing takeout on the edge of his desk, rehearsing a love story that starts to sound uncomfortably real, pressing her back against cool glass in a darkened corridor — that is something else entirely. Wren knows better than anyone how a contract can be weaponized. She swore she would never let feelings and signatures collide again.

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