“You left me once. Try it again, and I’ll ruin you.” When broke, jobless, and emotionally drained Anais Vale walks into the towering headquarters of Vale Corp., the last face she expects to see is Cassian Vale—her cold, powerful ex-husband and the man she walked out on three years ago. He’s richer now. Harder. More dangerous. And shockingly, he’s offering her a second contract marriage. The terms? Five years. One shared bed. No secrets. And this time, she signs away the right to ever leave him. Anais wants independence. He wants obedience. But as power shifts, old wounds resurface, and secrets from their past come clawing back, she realizes something terrifying: she may have escaped once… …but he never stopped chasing her. And this time, he holds all the power

She needed money. He needed control. Neither expected to find each other. When Aria signs away her future to carry a billionaire’s heir, she tells herself it’s only business, a cold transaction in exchange for her father’s survival. But Damien Blackwell isn’t just rich, he’s haunted, scarred by betrayal and traumatized by past flings, he demands the impossible: a virgin surrogate untouched by love or lies. The contract was clear. No intimacy. No entanglements. No falling in love. But as walls crumble and lines blur, Aria discovers the man behind the iron mask is far more dangerous than the contract ever warned her of, because what he wants now is no longer just her womb, but her heart. And in Damien’s world, hearts are the most expensive thing to lose.