The Kiss We Both Pretended Never Happened

Emma Collins has built her career on perfection. As a brilliant Senior Account Executive at Sterling & Co., she knows how to control a room, protect her reputation, and never allow personal emotions to interfere with professional ambition.Then one unforgettable night changes everything.At the company's anniversary gala, Emma shares a forbidden kiss with James Prescott-a man who is about to become her new Creative Director. The moment is passionate, unexpected, and impossible to forget. But by Monday morning, they have both agreed to pretend it never happened. Their careers are too important, the power imbalance too dangerous, and the consequences of discovery could destroy everything they have worked for.So they make a pact: the gala never happened, and neither did the kiss.But pretending is much harder when the person you are trying to forget is sitting across from you every day.James becomes Emma's boss, and their professional relationship quickly turns into a tense battle of ambition, attraction, restraint, and unspoken emotion. Every meeting carries the memory they refuse to acknowledge. Every glance threatens to break the carefully constructed boundaries between them.Then a photograph surfaces.Their secret kiss has been captured, and Corey Dalton sees an opportunity. He doesn't simply want money-he wants Emma's position, reputation, and future. His blackmail forces her into an impossible choice: deliberately sabotage the prestigious Fairchild account or risk having the photograph exposed and watching her career collapse.As Emma struggles to protect everything she has built, James quietly puts his own reputation at risk to shield her. But his silence only makes their situation more dangerous. When Emma's carefully planned sabotage is accidentally undone by her loyal friend Stella, Corey realizes she has defied him-and his threats become even more dangerous.Now Emma must decide what matters more: protecting the perfect image she spent years creating, or finally admitting the truth about the man she was never supposed to love.The Kiss We Both Pretended Never Happened is a compelling workplace romance filled with forbidden attraction, corporate intrigue, blackmail, emotional tension, secrets, and the irresistible question of whether two people can truly forget a moment that changed everything.