“Here’s $100—Can you be my mom today?” a billionaire boss’s son asked—until a shy woman replied, “Keep it. Billionaires pay in secrets.”

Something moved across his face so quickly I might have imagined it.

“My life does not allow softness.”

“Then change your life.”

The driver’s eyes flicked to the mirror as though I had just pulled a pin from a grenade.

Julian leaned back. “You speak boldly for someone with very little leverage.”

“And you threaten easily for someone whose continue reading …