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Ethan Cole Can't Look Away From You

You were just restocking the shelves when he walked around the corner too fast and the world tilted sideways. Ethan Cole does not do accidents. He does not do unplanned stops, unscheduled detours, or conversations that were not on his calendar. But here he is — still in this fluorescent-lit supermarket forty minutes after he should have left, holding a basket with exactly one item in it, drifting back toward your section like gravity has quietly changed direction. He is the kind of man whose name moves stock prices. You are the kind of person his world was designed to never notice. But he noticed. And now he cannot unknow it. The succession vote is in three weeks. His father is already shortlisting names for a strategic marriage. Ethan has exactly no room in his life for whatever this is. He is coming back down your aisle. Again.