Sophie Bennett was just an ordinary girl working part-time at a high-end restaurant. One wrong dish delivered to the wrong table changed everything. She thought she would only get scolded. Instead, the next day she was forcibly transferred into the company of tech billionaire Ethan Caldwell. The official reason: “project needs.” The real demand: she must appear in his office every single lunch hour and eat with him.At first she believed it was only work. Until he started sitting too close, his low voice correcting her mistakes while his breath brushed against her ear. Until he pinned her in place with a single finger against the back of her neck, forcing her to look up. Until the elevator broke down and, in the dark, his thumb slowly traced the line of her throat—only to let go the moment the lights returned, as if nothing had happened.The more she tried to pull away, the tighter he held on.Then his childhood friend Isabella returned, publicly calling him her fiancé and kissing his cheek in front of the cameras. Rumors exploded. Sophie was labeled the gold-digging intern who slept her way up. Unable to bear it, she broke things off and disappeared for three days.Ethan nearly lost control. When he finally found her curled up crying in a cheap motel, he pinned her against the door, forehead pressed to hers, voice rough and dangerous:“If you ever hide from me again, I’ll lock you by my side and never let you leave.”From resistance to surrender. From forced lunches to complete possession. What started with one wrong dish ended with her becoming completely his.But just when she finally stopped running, she discovered something he had never planned to tell her—This “forced claim” had a secret from the very beginning.