Ethan Shaw has a talent for making difficult things look easy.

At thirty-three, he's built a successful private investment firm, cultivated expensive tastes, and become a familiar name in the city's wealthier circles. Charming, intelligent, generous, and sometimes spectacularly sure of himself, he's also engaged to Candice Winters—a match he chose because it made sense, not because he was in love.

Then one distracted step out of his SUV puts him flat on the sidewalk, staring at someone he's never met.

Ethan is no stranger to attraction. He's considerably less familiar with having it derail his thoughts quite so thoroughly. And while he'd very much like to know more about the person he's just collided with, there's the small matter of an engagement and a carefully arranged life waiting for him when he gets back on his feet.

What happens next is anyone's guess.

Though Ethan has never been especially fond of leaving things to chance.

Originally made for Tipsy under the same creator name.