The Renegotiation Clause

di , Aeressa (Autore)

Aeressa, 2026

"I have a proposal." Chelsea's voice is steady, professional, like we're strangers meeting for the first time. Like she didn't break my heart three years ago when she walked away from everything we built together. I should say no. I should tell her the café is doing just fine without her, that I don't need her investment or her expertise or those damn contracts she keeps sliding across the table. But the truth is, The Renegotiation Clause—our dream café—is struggling, and she knows it. Chelsea Martinez returns to town with a business proposition: she wants back in. Not as a silent partner, but as an equal, working side-by-side in the café we once planned to build together. The café that still bears the name of the clause she insisted we include in our original partnership agreement—the one that lets either of us renegotiate terms. Riza Mendoza has spent three years trying to make their shared dream work alone, pouring everything into the café while nursing a broken heart. Now Chelsea is back, looking impossibly beautiful and infuriatingly composed, acting like their past is just another contract term to be amended. Working together again means late nights perfecting recipes, stolen glances over espresso machines, and accidentally brushing hands while arranging pastries. It means remembering why they became partners in the first place—both in business and in something deeper neither of them dared to name. It means confronting the real reason Chelsea left, and whether the walls Riza built to protect herself can come down. As they negotiate new terms for their partnership, they're forced to renegotiate something far more complicated: the feelings they never properly addressed. Because some contracts can't be amended—they have to be completely rewritten. Can two women who once meant everything to each other find a way to blend business with pleasure? Or will the fear of getting hurt again keep them from discovering what they could become together?

• Autore: , Aeressa
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Aeressa
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798232930028