Ethan POV

The headline glowed at the top of my tablet like a personal crown: MONROE INDUSTRIES SECURES ATLAS CONTRACT IN HISTORIC BID OVERTURN.

I read it once.

Twice.

A third time.

And each time, the thrill hit just as hard.

The biggest contract of the quarter.

The one every major corporation clawed for.

The one Maxwell Cole had practically owned for the last four years.

Now it was mine.

A slow smile stretched across my face—not the kind I showed reporters, polished and strategic, but a ...