Chapter One Preview: The Price of Attention

Ken McIntyre knows how to make a woman feel chosen with gifts, luxury, private views of Los Angeles, and a weekend designed to feel unforgettable.

But Rachel Cunningham knows the difference between being wanted and being owned.

Chapter One opens inside Ken’s world: expensive rooms, late-night smoke, and tension simmering heavy between two people who still know how to reach for each other, even when they know they shouldn’t.

What starts as a birthday weekend turns into a quiet power struggle over attention, control, and the truth neither of them wants to say out loud.

Rachel came for the weekend.

Ken expected more.

And that’s where the trouble begins.

Chapter One Preview: The Price of Attention