The contract is signed and Mira moves into the estate. Cruelty softens into tenderness and a rival threatens them. Dante confesses love and proposes. Then a new threat emerges through her mom’s medical account. A secret about Dante’s mom is revealed and a traitor is caught spying inside the house right when things calmed down.

She was sold to pay her father's debt. She never expected to fall in love with the monster who bought her.When Elena Voss's father gambles away three million dollars he doesn't have, the mafia doesn't send a warning — they send Damian Voronin, a man whose silence is more dangerous than any threat. The terms are simple: the money, or her.Thirty days. No chains, no locked doors — just a cage built from silk sheets, quiet dinners, and a man who reads poetry between ordering executions. Elena tells herself she's counting down the days until she's free. She doesn't expect to start dreading the moment the debt gets paid.But loving a king means loving his crown — and his crown is soaked in blood. When rival men come to burn down everything Damian's built, Elena has to decide if the man who stole her freedom is worth risking her life to save.Some cages are just the shape of a man's arms — and some girls choose to stay.