Collateral Damage |+18|Updated at Jun 27, 2023, 17:10
Matheo Slade accepts nothing less than perfection.
If the blows of life have taught him anything in his thirty-seven years, it's that making mistakes and the slightest flaw bring consequences he's not willing to face again.
Clinging to his unimpeachable morals and iron control, he runs one of the most successful technology companies in New York.
His love life is something he has put on hold for years, but he is certain that when he does have a woman by his side, it will be someone who meets his firm standards of who would be his perfect partner.
Defne Sinclair, with her messy hair, colorful post-it notes and short twenty-three years, definitely doesn't meet any of his parameters, so why the hell can't he stop thinking about her?
Defne doesn't want to be there.
Hell, she definitely didn't sign up to be a spy and infiltrate Matheo Slade's company, let alone be a pawn in her absent and very fucked up father's game.
Sure as hell didn't expect to fall in love with the man her father has been in a trade war with for years, a man she lies to on a daily basis in exchange for her mother's safety, either. But there she is, helplessly, in the middle of a war that is not hers. A war that, although she wants to, she cannot get out of.
When Matheo discovers who Defne really is, will he understand that not everything is black and white, that there are colors in between? Or will he lose her because of the perfection to which he clings so much?
If there is one thing Defne is sure of, it is that she will not get out of there intact and, worst of all, she fears that in the end she will only be... collateral damage.