The night before my parents' anniversary, I caught my father having an affair and something in me broke that day. I vowed never to love like that. When marriage threatened my freedom, I made compromises. I became a Husband on paper, one signature, one public role with no emotions allowed. Somewhere between the lies, everything started to feel real. What I didn't know was that she was already legally married. Married to the abandoned some my father erased from our bloodline. Two sons. One empire. And the woman I married stands at the centre of the lie. That’s when I understood that the marriage was never an accident.

I was only 13 when I saw my parents murdered in cold blood and was forced into a cruel orphanage home run by the Donatello mafia. I gathered children, we escaped and we survived. I built my own secret empire, gained favors and power along the way, all for revenge. Then Xander Donatello, the heir to the family that destroyed my life, came to me with a contract marriage. I agreed, not for love but for revenge. But the plan begins to fall apart when feelings I didn’t expect start to grow, and I discover that I am carrying his child. Everything explodes at once. Just when I think I can finally take control, I found out that Allison, my best friend, had been working against me all along Everything I built is crumbling, and now Xander has disappeared.