Under Madam's Desk

She was everything he was never supposed to want.

Samira Hashmi was forty-two, powerful, and untouchable. A sharp-suited bank manager who ruled her office with quiet authority and never let anyone close. When her son's best friend, twenty-one-year-old Ayaan, walked into her life looking for a job, he told himself it was just an opportunity. Nothing more.

But from the very first day, something dangerous began to shift between them.

Ayaan had known Samira for years — the elegant, confident woman...