Ethan Ashford is known to be very reckless, he does whatever he wants and gets whatever he wants, and this time, he wanted her. She was just his secretary, quiet, efficient, invisible while he was the cold, arrogant CEO who owned everything in that building, including her, if you asked him. Her life was already falling apart, her boyfriend of three years had been cheating on her, she had no money, no backup plan, and nowhere else to go, she was drowning, and no one even noticed, so when Ethan offered her a one-year marriage contract, she should have said no but, he needed a wife and she needed a way out. It was strictly business, a year of pretending then they'd walk away but nothing about Ethan is simple, he is demanding, controlling, and impossible to read. One moment he’s ice cold, the next he burning through her like he wants to devour her, he says this is just an arrangement but every look, every accidental touch her walls crack a little more, until she found out he cheated. He always does what he wants but this one was different, he broke the only rule they had, he was supposed to be her escape, instead, he became her destruction, but here is the thing she didn't see coming, he fell in love with her which gets her trapped between the man who betrayed her and the man who owns her heart. She doesn't know if she can forgive him, she doesn't know if she could trust him, she doesn't know if she'll survive walking away, but she knew one thing for certain, that contract was supposed to save her but unfortunately, it might be the very thing that breaks her because the man who was supposed to be her fake husband became her real everything and she has no idea how to wrap her emotions around that.