“Smile for the cameras, Isabella,” my stepmother whispered against my ear. “Tonight determines whether your father survives this family.”The night I’m supposed to announce my engagement to Ethan Carter, I find him sleeping with my stepsister inside a luxury hotel suite minutes before the party begins.Humiliated. Furious. Seconds away from falling apart in front of Manhattan’s elite.Then I make the worst decision possible.I walk straight toward Adrian King.Cold-eyed billionaire heir. Ruthless corporate predator. The most dangerous man in New York.And in front of the entire ballroom,I kiss him.By morning, the scandal owns the internet.By afternoon, Adrian offers me a deal.Marry him for one year.In exchange, he’ll save my father’s collapsing empire, destroy the people who betrayed me, and bury every scandal threatening my family.It should have been simple.A contract. A performance. Revenge dressed as marriage.But Adrian King was never accidental.He knew about Ethan’s betrayal before I did.He was watching me long before the ballroom.And hidden inside our marriage agreement is proof that I was never supposed to survive this emotionally.Now I’m trapped inside a war between billion-dollar empires, family conspiracies, and a man whose obsession with me grows more dangerous every day.Because powerful men don’t know how to love gently.And Adrian King has already decided I belong to him.