"You can have the bed to yourself tonight."Damian's voice broke the silence.Valerie blinked.Only moments ago, his hands had been on her as though she were the only woman in the world.Now he sounded as though she were nothing more than another obligation.To the world, Damian Cavill is the ruthless tycoon—feared, untouchable, and in complete control. To Valerie, he is the man who saved her from vicious loan sharks by offering her a lifeline on strict terms: three years as his wife, one child, and her father's debts would vanish.Valerie signed — because the alternative was losing everything.But Valerie doesn't know the whole truth. Damian is running out of time, and the secret he's guarding could shatter everything the moment Valerie discovers it. So he keeps her at arm's length, wrapped in icy indifference, telling himself distance is a mercy.Yet every night, watching her sleep alone on her side of the bed, that wall becomes harder to maintain.Passion breaks through the rules they built. And danger closes in from every side—a power-hungry uncle circling the Cavill empire, a childhood friend who has never stopped believing Damian belongs to her.The clock is running out on his secret. His enemies are running out of patience. And Valerie is about to learn that the coldest man she's ever met has been trying to spare them both a heartbreak neither of them can survive.