This is a love story, one that comes with rules, expectations, and dark shadows. One where the man who challenges me the most is cloaked in deception. I had no choice but to accept the terms, nowhere to run once the clock started ticking. Donovan Stone was a man few people dared to cross. He was dark. He was dominating. He was so silent that you had to watch him closely to begin to know what he was thinking. He was my boss, and the man I should have run from the minute I walked into his corporate office. Like any bad decision, it took time for me to see the truth about the game I’d entered, for me to understand that it wasn’t the stalker in the shadows I should fear, but the man who pulled the strings. I had no choice. At least, that’s the lie I told myself to forgive my foolish actions. And while running as fast as I could through twisted mazes and deceitful games, I understood that the Rules of Engagement were now my life.
I Loved, loved loved this book so damn much, definitely one of my favorites so far. I was delighted to finally find such a story that challenged my thinking and my heart.
I had an instant connection with Mia, and I did get her why she is the way she is. I couldn’t make myself like Donovan at first. Apparently, the main character and I were in agreement on this. Eventually, I started to see those small things about the man that made me want him to be saved and loved as he is grown on me gradually. Mr. Donovan Stone is a man not for faint-hearted or week, you would want to hit him with your heals in the soft places. The twisted faith of the desperate Mia’s decision to play a game made me want to shake her and scream don’t do it. Mia is a woman with complicated past that jaded her and made her retreat into her own shell. How wise, twisted faith is that she found herself working for the Donovan Stone, the man who will break every wall she enacted to keep herself safe. The infuriating male who has no warmth but critique and resentment towards everything she does. And yet their intense work relationship was precisely what mousy however brilliant woman needed. He knew how to press every button until she broke free and discovered what kind of woman is underneath the skin she wore all her life and avoided to have contact. But the question always lingered who is stalking a young woman who has no other choice but works for Donovan and wishes that the warped online game she never started out of despair?
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