His Last Good Headline
By @john1208
Rina Gavrilas is the best in the business. They call her 'The Mortician' because she buries scandals so deep they're never seen again. Her latest client, however, is a career-defining nightmare: Damen Aris, the enigmatic heir to a shipping empire, whose self-destructive behavior is legendary. Hired by Damen's dying father and bound by an ironclad contract that gives her unprecedented control, Rina arrives at the old man's funeral ready to spin tragedy into triumph. But Damen isn't the arrogant playboy the tabloids paint. He's a man haunted by a past trauma, lashing out to keep the world at bay. Their professional relationship is a battlefield of clashing ethics - her ruthless pragmatism against his defiant self-sabotage. Every strategy she deploys, he counters with a new disaster. Yet, beneath the animosity, a reluctant understanding grows, an unexpected spark in the eye of the media storm. When a city-wide lockdown traps them in his penthouse, the line between professional duty and personal desire blurs into nonexistence. But as Rina chips away at the walls around his heart, she's unaware that the greatest threat to Damen's future isn't a reporter's headline, but a betrayal from someone she trusts implicitly. Can she save him from his demons, and herself, when the real enemy has been by her side all along?
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