The Vice President

Sasha Cain has climbed to a place where she can shape which risks Kessler Brandt closes and which truths it keeps hidden. When SEC staff counsel Julian Alsace begins asking about the firm’s transactions, Sasha calculates the cost of every answer. Her dossier traces money through shell companies, old fee structures, and a system designed to distance decisions from their consequences. Julian believes in evidence, and his attention gives Sasha both an opening and a vulnerability. She feeds the investigation enough truth to direct it while keeping the most useful facts in reserve. Desire becomes another channel of leverage, until trust itself becomes the position she must manage.

For adult readers 18+ only. Contains explicit sexual content.