He learned how to kneel.
He learned how to obey.
He learned how to take correction without flinching.

What Elliot didn’t learn—until her—was how to be good without performing it.

Imani built him back with rules: clear consent, clean consequences, no shortcuts. In her world, punishment is precise and mercy is earned. And that’s why the next step is the one that scares her most.

Reward.

Because a reward isn’t pain he can rationalize. It isn’t discipline he can endure and call it strength. A reward is intimacy—softness, praise, permission—given only when she means it.

And Elliot wants it the way starving men want food: quietly, desperately, like it might save him.

As he proves himself, Imani finds her control slipping in the one place it never has: her chest, her throat, the space behind her ribs where she keeps feelings locked up and unnamed. She can handle a client who misbehaves. She can handle obsession. She can handle demands.

What she may not be able to handle is a man who becomes worthy… and then looks at her like she’s the thing he’s been waiting for.

Because if she rewards him the way he’s asking—if she gives him the one thing he can’t buy—she won’t just change him.

She’ll risk becoming his.

REWARD is a high-heat, emotionally intense erotic romance about dominance, devotion, and the most dangerous thing in a power exchange: tenderness that’s real. Read in order for maximum impact.