The CEO’s Debt She thought she was signing a contract. She didn’t know she was signing her heart. Ria Vasquez is drowning. Her father is dying. The bills are piling up. And the only job she can keep is serving drinks to men who see her as a transaction. When the city’s most feared CEO — Killian Blackwood, shatters a man’s hand for touching her, Ria should run. Instead, she wakes to a contract on her nightstand. One year. His penthouse. His rules. Her father’s debt erased. Desperation makes her sign. But the moment she moves into Blackwood Tower, she finds a locked room filled with sketches. Dozens of them. All of her. Dating back ten years. Killian isn't a savior. He’s an obsession. And she just became his prisoner. He tells himself he owns her. But every time she defies him by painting murals on his walls, refusing to sit at his feet, she cracks the ice around his frozen heart. Then Silas Thorne, the man who holds the real debt, starts whispering secrets. About the accident that crippled Ria’s father. About the night Killian’s father died. About the twin sister Ria never knew she had. Ria thought she was signing away her freedom. But the fine print says something else: Some debts can only be paid in blood. And some hearts can only be claimed in darkness.