Some secrets refuse to stay buried. Some desires never truly die.
My name is Paris a billionaire, a global celebrity architect, and a man who’s never needed anyone but me. Growing up as the son of a chauffeur in the shadow of Chicago’s elite, I learned early that love only gets you hurt. So, I traded love for power—an empire forged from nothing but my ambition and a heart too bruised to care.
But our past has a cruel way of resurfacing.
I am Basil Gideon Guildford III—Gideon Guildford to most—heir to the Guilford fortune and the architect of my power. My world was upended at seventeen when a wild, beautiful, green-eyed boy, our chauffeur’s son Stanley Caston Jr, was sent away. They exiled him because of his forbidden crush on my younger brother, Killian. What no one knows is that his departure shattered my heart.
Time hardened me, and I rebuilt myself into a more powerful man than my father. But now, he’s back—no longer the boy I once loved in silence, but gorgeous Paris Caston, a billionaire untouchable in his success.
Can we mend what was never truly ours, or will the bitterness of our past destroy the fragile bond we never had a chance to create?