From His Tutor to His Darling

Ayden Clark grew up rich and refused to study, and his mother eventually hired Ivy Harper to live with the family and tutor him. She got him up at dawn, made him run, and drilled him through dictation and exercises until the work stuck. He learned discipline from her and started to want things for himself. Before she left to go back to her own town, he made himself a promise that he would marry her when he was grown. Eighteen years later he runs the largest fortune in the country and every stock exchange watches what he does. On the day the empire is finally his, he walks out of the board meeting and drives back to the village to find her. Ivy is no longer the tutor he remembers. She designs under a professional name at a rival firm and is also a doctor good enough to restart a stopped heart. His grandfather starts pushing an arranged marriage that is meant to bring good fortune to the family. Ivy's relative Jade works against her, and Beatrice Ferdinand runs her own maneuvers on the business side. Ayden and Ivy end up handling all of it together, closing deals and putting down the people trying to split them, while the promise he made as a boy turns out to have held.