Breaking Lucas : A Billionaire Workplace Enemies-to-Lovers Romance (Skyscrapers & Sin Book 1)

He signs her paycheck. She's determined to make him earn every penny of her respect.

Mara Quinn doesn't intimidate easily—until Lucas Hale walks into the boardroom and dismantles her five-year career plan with a single cold smile. As the new CEO of Hale Industries, he's ruthless, brilliant, and absolutely insufferable. As her boss, he's untouchable. As the man who keeps finding reasons to call her into his office after hours, he's becoming something far more dangerous.

Lucas built his empire on control. He controls markets, rivals, entire industries. What he cannot control is the sharp-tongued project manager who challenges every decision he makes and looks infuriatingly good doing it. Their battles are legendary on the forty-second floor—clipped words in glass conference rooms, charged silences in elevator rides that last three seconds too long.

But when a high-stakes merger forces them into an uneasy alliance, the war between them shifts. Mara starts seeing the exhaustion behind his armor. Lucas starts lowering it. And somewhere between stolen glances and late-night strategy sessions, hatred curdles into something neither of them has a name for yet.

He wants to win. She refuses to lose. And falling for each other was never supposed to be on the table.

*Some battles don't end in victory. They end in surrender—and Lucas Hale is starting to think that might not be the worst thing that's ever happened to him.*