He was the mistake she could never afford. She was the secret he could never tell.Lila Adeyemi had one rule: survive university. Breaking it with Professor Adrian Cole in a dark VIP room was not the plan. A positive pregnancy test was not the plan. A forced marriage to save her scholarship was not the plan. But Adrian Cole doesn’t do plans. He does contracts. And his only term is obedience. When the paternity test proves the baby belongs to the man who drugged her, Adrian should let her go. Instead, he declares war. “You’re mine until I say otherwise.”Then the doctor calls with two heartbeats. Twins. Two fathers. One his. One his worst enemy’s.Now the professor who has everything will raise both children. And the student who has nothing will learn what it means to belong to a man like him. Property of Daddy.

I thought turning sixteen would be the beginning of something beautiful.A perfect birthday. A perfect family. A perfect life as the daughter of one of the most powerful men in the country.But perfection is only what people see from the outside.That night, while everyone toasted to my future and called me “lucky,” I started noticing things I had always ignored—the way my mother’s smile never reached her eyes… the way my father always left the room to take “important calls”… and the way people kept mentioning something about a son.I should have walked away when I first felt that strange silence in my chest.But I didn’t.Because I never imagined that behind my father’s empire… there was a truth my family had been hiding for years.A truth that shattered everything I believed about love, loyalty, and blood.And when I finally overheard the words I was never meant to hear…“I didn’t build an empire for it to end with a daughter. I need a son. An heir.”My world didn’t just break.It collapsed.