Sold to the Mountain King
My father sold me to settle a gambling debt.
I didn’t know until the man I’d been serving coffee to for two months pulled out my chair at a brunch table in Vail. An engagement clause with my name on it, signed eight weeks ago without my knowledge. My father couldn’t look at me. Cole Ashford couldn’t stop looking.
Cole is the CEO of Palisade and leader of the 303. He bought my father’s debt in one night. He told him the clause was worthless before the ink dried—and let him sign it anyway. He knows my lease, my coffee, my life. He broke into my apartment while I was in Vail and left a cup of coffee brewed exactly the way I brew it, still warm when I walked through the door.
I hated him. I hated more the way my body wouldn’t agree. His voice landed behind my ribs and spread where it had no business spreading. His gaze dropped to my mouth and I felt it on my skin for hours. The most dangerous man in Denver looked at me like I was the only thing his empire couldn’t buy. I wanted to burn the part of me that responded.
I built Treeline from three years of tips and a lease in Union Station. Now I’m discovering the ground beneath it was his before I laid the first brick—engineered by a man who doesn’t take what he wants. He builds a world where what he wants walks in on its own.
But every touch he takes gives him nothing. Granite and ice. Every touch I choose to give him changes everything.
He thinks he claimed me. He’s wrong. The only version of me worth having walks in on her own. And I haven’t decided yet.
Table of contents
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After Hours2026-03-07 06:21
- 1Vintage2026-03-07 05:02
- 2Caged2026-03-07 05:02
- 3The Predator2026-03-07 05:02
- 4First Chair2026-03-07 05:02
- 5Imprint2026-03-07 05:02
- 6Plastic Chairs2026-03-07 05:02
- 7Welcome Home2026-03-07 05:02
- 8Five Fifteen2026-03-07 05:03
- 9Two Cups2026-03-07 05:03
- 10Warning2026-03-07 05:05
- 11Platform Three2026-03-07 05:05
- 12Architecture of Control2026-03-07 05:05
- 13The Question2026-03-07 05:36
- 14The Answer2026-03-07 05:51
- 15Origin2026-03-07 06:07
- 16After Hours2026-03-07 06:21
Volume 1 :Book 1 of The 303 Series
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