Elena wasn't supposed to hear anything. She was just cleaning the 40th floor like she did every night. But she did hear it. She even recorded it. The next morning she's fired for "stealing data." No severance, no references, nothing. And her little brother needs heart surgery she can't pay for. That's when Adrian Dadik calls her in. The CEO. The man whose floors she used to mop. "Marry me for one year. I'll cover everything. Don't fall in love with me — you're too smart for that." She hates him a little for how easy it is for him. She signs anyway. Ethan's life is worth more than her pride. What she doesn't know yet: the man who wants her dead over that recording is Adrian's own uncle. She just moved into the house of the family hunting her. And the deeper she digs, the worse it gets. Her father didn't die in prison a fraudster. He was framed. The proof is buried somewhere in the Dadik family's past — along with a murder they called an accident, and shares that make Elena the heir nobody was ever supposed to find. Adrian thinks he married a desperate girl who'll behave for money. He's wrong about the desperate part. He's wrong about the behaving part. He's especially wrong about not falling in love. Marriage of convenience • Billionaire CEO • Hidden heir • Slow burn • Revenge