Does Joy seriously not know how to read the room?!

Sean had already made his rejection painfully clear at the entrance of The Imperiale Hotel. If she still kept forcing herself on him, she was only asking to get humiliated.

In those dominant CEO romances I used to read, the kind of seductive, shameless heroine would act cute the moment the male lead got angry. If that didn’t work, she’d just shove him down and sleep together—boom. Ice broken.

Or ...