THE DEVIL WHO OWNS MY HEARTINTRODUCTIONSome men walk into your life carrying flowers.Others arrive carrying secrets.Damien Cross arrived carrying both.I should have known there was something wrong with him the first time I saw him.Not because he was cruel.Not because everyone in the room became silent whenever he entered.Not even because of the way people lowered their eyes when he looked at them.It was the way he looked at me.Like he already knew me.Like he had been waiting for me.Like I belonged to him before I had even learned his name.I was twenty-two when my father's death turned my entire world upside down.One moment, I was the daughter of a respected businessman, living a quiet life and worrying about ordinary things.The next, I was standing beside his grave, listening to people whisper about debts, enemies, and secrets my father had apparently taken to his grave.Then Damien Cross appeared.He didn't offer me sympathy.He didn't pretend to care.He simply stood several feet away from me in a black suit, watching the coffin disappear beneath the earth.When everyone else left, he remained."You shouldn't be here," I told him.His eyes stayed on me."I could say the same about you.""I don't know you."A faint smile touched his lips."That's what you think."That was the first lie he ever told me.Because Damien Cross knew exactly who I was.He knew where I lived.He knew what I feared.He knew things about my father that I had never heard before.And, most terrifying of all, he knew why my father had died.I just didn't know that yet.Three days later, I found out my family was drowning in debt.A week later, someone tried to kill me.And two weeks after that, Damien Cross made me an offer I couldn't refuse.He would protect me.He would pay every debt my father left behind.He would make sure no one ever touched me again.But I had to move into his mansion.I should have said no.I should have run as far away from him as possible.Instead, I walked through his front door.And that was the moment my life stopped being mine.Because Damien didn't want to protect me.He wanted something from me.Something he had been waiting years to take.And by the time I discovered the truth, I was already hopelessly trapped between the man who wanted to destroy my family...and the man I was beginning to fall in love with.The devil had entered my life.And somehow...he had found a way to own my heart.