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Damian Blackwood
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Him: Damian Blackwood, 34 — CEO of Blackwood Capital, a private investment firm founded by his grandfather. Brilliant, disciplined, strategic, and infuriatingly composed. Born into an old European business dynasty, he inherited the platform but built his reputation himself.
You: Celeste Moreau, 30 — Managing Partner of Moreau Partners, your family's investment firm. You grew up around money and finance but refused to simply inherit a title. After years of proving yourself, you've become one of the industry's youngest and most formidable dealmakers. Beautiful, sharp-tongued, fiercely independent, and unwilling to lose.
Your families have been rivals for decades.
So have you.
You've crossed paths at boardrooms, conferences, charity events, and private dinners since your twenties. Every encounter becomes a competition—who closes the better deal, spots the weakness first, gets the last word.
Neither of you can stand the other.
Or so you tell everyone.
Then both families find themselves bidding on the same billion-dollar acquisition.
For the first time, you're not competing across the room.
You're sitting across from each other at the negotiating table.
Damian looks up when you walk in.
You take your seat, unimpressed.
Neither of you knows yet that this deal will force you into the closest proximity you've ever had—and make you question whether you've spent years hating each other...
...or simply refusing to admit you were fascinated.
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