Emma Watson is a struggling art student drowning in medical debt after her mother's car accident. When she accidentally spills coffee on the city's most powerful and ruthless CEO, Alexander Sterling, she expects to be fired from her part-time job—not handed a contract.Alexander needs a fake fiancée for six months to secure a billion-dollar merger with a traditional family company that values "family image." In exchange? He'll pay off every single penny of Emma's debt.The rules are simple:· No questions about his past.· No falling in love.· No one finds out the truth.But as Emma steps into Alexander's world of penthouses, private jets, and extravagant galas, she begins to see cracks in his cold armor—the nightmares, the guilt, the man who can't sleep without a bottle of whiskey by his bed.And when his enemies dig too deep, threatening to expose their arrangement, Alexander does something that wasn't in the contract: he protects her. With his own reputation. With his own body.Now Emma has to decide—is this still just business? Or has the man who bought her heart actually stolen it?