He Spent 11 Years Building an Empire Alone... Until One Woman Made Him Choose Between Everything and Her

He Spent 11 Years Building an Empire Alone... Until One Woman Made Him Choose Between Everything and Her For eleven years, Rafael Monteiro built an empire believing that control was the only thing standing between him and failure. Cold, disciplined, and nearly untouchable, he transformed the company his father left behind into one of the most powerful in the country — without ever allowing anyone close enough to discover the man behind the name. Until Beatriz Alcântara walked into his boardroom. She was supposed to be nothing more than his rival in the most important negotiation of his career. Intelligent, ambitious, and completely unfazed by his intimidating presence, Beatriz is the first woman in years capable of challenging him as an equal… and the first person capable of making him forget that he is always supposed to be in control. Between tense negotiations, dangerous provocations, and an attraction neither of them can ignore, a multimillion-dollar deal begins to turn into something far more dangerous. Because when business, reputations, and feelings collide, Rafael realizes he may have to choose between protecting the empire he devoted eleven years of his life to building… **or risking everything for the only woman who ever made him want a life beyond it.**