The Billionaire’s Forgotten BrideThe night Elena Vale was thrown out into the rain by her own sister, she thought her life was over.Homeless, betrayed, and with nowhere left to go, Elena is offered something that sounds impossible—a one-year contract marriage with Adrian Kingsley, the cold billionaire heir to the largest business empire in the country.The rules are simple.Be his wife in public. Sleep in separate rooms. Never fall in love.To Elena, the marriage is nothing more than survival.To Adrian, it is another emotionless arrangement forced on him by his family after a devastating betrayal destroyed his ability to trust women.Cold, powerful, and emotionally unreachable, Adrian has spent years hiding behind wealth and business success while burying the man he used to be. Love no longer exists in his world. Neither does trust.But from the moment Elena enters his mansion, strange memories begin haunting him.A familiar smile.A familiar voice.A feeling he thought he lost years ago.Unknown to both of them, this is not the first time their lives have crossed.Long before Adrian became a billionaire feared by society, he was just a lonely boy studying at an elite boarding school filled with wealthy heirs and privileged students. And among all of them was one scholarship girl who quietly became the only person who ever truly understood him.Elena.The girl who disappeared from his life without warning.Now fate has brought them together again—except neither of them remembers the full truth yet.As their fake marriage slowly turns into something dangerously real, emotional walls begin breaking apart. The cold billionaire who promised never to love again finds himself becoming possessive, protective, and emotionally dependent on the woman he was never supposed to need.But love was never part of the contract.With jealous enemies, public scandals, hidden family secrets, business rivals, and painful misunderstandings threatening to destroy them, Elena must decide whether loving Adrian is worth risking her heart.And Adrian must confront the terrifying truth he has spent years running from:The woman he accidentally married may be the only person he has ever truly loved.A heartbreaking and addictive slow-burn billionaire romance filled with emotional tension, betrayal, hidden pasts, forced proximity, luxury drama, and unforgettable chemistry.Some love stories begin with destiny.Theirs begins with a contract.