I never believed in fairytales. Not when my wedding dress was borrowed, not when my groom looked at me like a stain on his perfect life.Adrian Blackwood didn’t want me. I wasn’t the bride he chose. I was the one shoved in front of him when his real fiancée ran away. To him, I was nothing. A placeholder. A shadow.On our wedding night, his voice was cold enough to shatter me:“You’ll stay. But don’t fool yourself, Elena. You’re nothing more than the wrong bride.”But humiliation is only the beginning. Because in Adrian’s world of power and ruthless ambition, secrets run deep, betrayal cuts closer to home than I imagined, and even my own family has turned against me.And Adrian? The man who vowed he’d never want me now looks at me with a hunger I don’t dare trust.This marriage was never meant to be love. It was meant to be survival.But what happens when survival turns into something far more dangerous?