The Price of Pleasure

Broke, desperate, and out of options, he digs up a business card he never meant to keep — from Narcissus, the city’s most exclusive modeling agency. Except modeling isn’t really what Narcissus sells. Within a week, Sebastian isn’t walking runways. He’s selling the one thing he has left to the people who can afford it.

His first client is a man the whole city talks about and no one has ever seen: Trevor Imperial, the construction tycoon they call the Emperor — a man who rebuilt his empire on other people’s secrets, and who has exactly one rule for the boy he pays by the hour. No questions. No feelings. No exceptions.

Sebastian breaks the rule the first night.

What starts as a transaction becomes a secret neither of them can walk away from — a double life Sebastian has to hide from his dying mother, the girlfriend he’s lying to, and everyone who still thinks he’s the good boy from dental school. But Trevor’s empire runs on one truth: everybody pays for what they want, eventually. And as old enemies resurface and the lies start collecting interest, Sebastian will have to decide exactly how much of himself he’s willing to spend on a man who was never supposed to be more than a paycheck.