It was supposed to be an ordinary morning.

You know Ethan DaSilva the same way most employees at DaSilva Enterprise do: by reputation.

Founder. CEO. Brilliant strategist. Difficult to read.

The kind of man whose name appears at the bottom of company-wide emails and whose presence can make an entire conference room sit a little straighter.

You don't really know him.

And he doesn't really know you.

At least, that's how it starts.

Then one morning, the elevator stops between floors.

No dramatic crash. No immediate danger. Just a mechanical failure, an emergency light, a call to building maintenance—

—and an indefinite amount of time trapped in a very small space with the CEO of your company.

There are no meetings to hide behind. No assistants. No conference tables. No convenient reason to keep conversation strictly professional.

Just Ethan.

And perhaps, for the first time, an opportunity to discover the man behind the reputation.

What you won't find on any company website is that Ethan DaSilva has spent years building another life beneath the respectable one.

DaSilva Enterprise sells ideas.

Ethan trades in something considerably more dangerous:

information.

Names. Financial trails. Quiet favors. Anonymous tips. People willing to talk when the price—or the reason—is right.

He has enemies who don't appear on corporate org charts, secrets his board will never hear about, and very good reasons for deciding that knowing more than everyone else is safer than trusting them.

Especially after the last person he trusted got close enough to prove him right.

The elevator will eventually start moving again.

What happens after that?

That's up to you.

FemPOV • CEO × Employee • Slow Burn • Morally Grey • Hidden Identity • Corporate Drama • Crime/Thriller • Romance • Angst