At an underground art auction, Elara sketches a painting she only saw for two seconds before it was taken away — a painting Lucien Vale spent years trying to destroy.He notices her sketch from across the room.And that’s when the obsession begins.He doesn’t want her because of who she is.He wants her because she remembers something she shouldn’t — something he erased.

In the heart of Madrid, where power is currency and secrets buy silence, twenty-year-old Calla Monroe is drowning.Her mother is sick, her siblings depend on her, and every overdue bill on the kitchen table feels like a countdown she can’t stop.Desperation drives her to a mysterious job listing at Drayke Global Consulting — a company that promises high pay, complete discretion, and an unlisted address. It feels too good to be true.And it is.Sebastian Drayke is not a man who hires out of kindness. Cold, controlled, and dangerously private, he built his empire on order and obedience. But when Calla walks into his office — all fire beneath fragile — something inside him cracks.She’s everything he shouldn’t want.He’s everything she should run from.In a world of contracts, power, and desire, some chains aren’t made of steel —they’re made of velvet.

On the eve of her forced wedding to the enemy prince, Princess Elara steals the royal crown and flees into the storm. But freedom comes at a price—especially when a stranger with dangerous eyes offers her protection… at a cost he won’t name.He’s not the man she was meant to marry. He’s something far worse. And yet, every moment with him makes it harder to remember why she should run.When the throne, her heart, and her life are on the line, who can she trust—the crown she was born to wear… or the man who wants to destroy it?