Damaged Bad Boy Billionaire

A Grumpy Forbidden Romance

By: Lexi Cole

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

COLLIN

She was my best friend’s girl and the one who left me scarred and hard.

In my mind, she was mine. But I never broke the bro code.

Shari Ellis storms back into my life, and my studio. All curves, fire, and a voice that hits me right in the gut. She’s holding the rights to the song for my artist. Every word she sings drags the past back with it.

Now I’m her boss.

We’re trading contracts by day, locking horns by night.

With every lyric, every stolen glance, the rhythm between us shifts. No code. Just me and her.

The tension? Nuclear.

One more look and I’m two seconds from pinning her against the soundboard and giving her everything she walked away from. Every dirty note and hard beat.

Then her ex—my former best friend—shows up, with threats that could tank my label's reputation, attempting to ruin the one thing I’ve never stopped wanting - Shari.

He wants war, let him come for me.

Because I’m the man who built a billion-dollar empire from pain, and I won’t lose it, or her, twice