I signed my name before I understood what it would cost me.My father’s debt was supposed to disappear the day I married Damian Cross. Instead, I became the one thing he wanted more than the money , collateral for a revenge four years in the making, tied to a woman I never knew and a night I had nothing to do with.He told me not to expect anything from him. Separate rooms. No feelings. A contract, nothing more.He lied.Now his hands find my jaw like he has every right to. His voice drops when no one else can hear it. And somewhere between his cold control and the wreckage of a secret neither of us can outrun, I’ve stopped being his punishment and started being something he’s terrified to lose.Someone out there wants us destroyed and they know exactly where to cut deepest. The company. The past. Me.I was supposed to be his collateral damage.I never expected to become the thing worth protecting.