Beyond the bench 18+
READING AGE 18+
In a world of litigation, Rune Vance is known as "The Vulture," a cold, calculated divorce attorney who never loses and never feels. When he represents a cheating husband in a messy, public split, he does exactly what he’s paid to do: he wins. But as he watches the defendant, Elena, walk out of the courtroom with her head low and her confidence shattered, he realizes he’s made the biggest mistake of his career.
Post-divorce, Elena is a ghost of herself. Haunted by her ex’s infidelities and the brutal efficiency with which Rune stripped her of her security, she retreats into a life of quiet insecurity. That is, until Rune begins to appear in the places he shouldn't be.
He doesn't come with legal papers this time. He comes with a dark, silver-tongued devotion and a singular mission: to undo the damage he helped cause.
As he "slithers" into her life, blurring every professional and moral line, Elena is faced with a terrifying choice. Can she trust the man who tore her world apart to be the one to stitch her back together? Rune is prepared to spend every cent, break every law, and drop to his knees as many times as it takes to prove that while her husband was a fool to leave, he would be a king to stay.
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Unfold
To understand the absolute wreck my life became, we need to rewind a bit.
When I first met Loren, I was working as a waitress at the very bar he frequented. I know it sounds like the opening chapter of a cliché romance novel. But unlike those books, our story didn't get a happily ever after. It was pretty much doomed from the very s……
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