I was a birthday gift. Not jewelry. Not a car. ME. To free my brother from prison and repay my family's debts, my family sold me to billionaire Isaac Hale. I thought I was to become his wife. Then he smiled and said, "Happy birthday, son." Chris Smith Hale. His heir. His ruthless, beautiful, stone-cold son who has hated every woman his father tried to give him. Except me. Because Chris has been secretly in love with me for five years. Five years of watching me from afar. Five years of wanting what he couldn't have.Now I'm wrapped in a bow in his bedroom, and his father thinks it's just a gift. But Chris whispers against my neck, "Daddy didn't buy you for him, princess. He bought you because I told him to. You were always meant to be mine." I was supposed to be his father's present. Now I'm his son's obsession. And he is never letting me unwrap myself from his life.

I only hired him cause my brother told me to. Jake Carter, my brother's best friend, the boy I grew up crushing on, now a cold, arrogant genius who looks at me like I'm still a little kid. He was supposed to tutor me. Nothing more. But he doesn't teach like a normal tutor. He locks the door. He leans too close. He whispers, "Try again, princess. You won't leave this desk until you get it right." He says he's doing it for my brother. He lies. He's been obsessed with me for years. And now that I'm finally in his hands... he's not letting go.He was my brother's best friend. My tutor. And my worst, most forbidden obsession.