Elene Hartwell thought the worst thing her father ever did was fail. She was wrong. When Elene is summoned to the top floor of D Blackwood Enterprise and handed a contract by the cold, calculating CEO himself, her world doesn't just tilt, it shatters. John Alexander Blackwood isn't offering her a promotion. He's offering her a marriage. Three years. Public appearances. Absolute loyalty. No love, no emotion, just terms. What she doesn't know is that her father's hands are stained with the blood of Blackwood's parents, and Edward Harrison Blackwood has been holding that secret like a loaded gun for years. Now he's finally pulled the trigger, and Elene is the bullet. Bound by a truth she doesn't yet know and a man she's determined to resist, Elene must navigate a world of power, buried sins, and a love neither of them planned for. But when the past refuses to stay buried, the only question left is: who pays the price of obsession?