Three years ago, Clara Whitlock walked out on the man she loved more than her own life — she put her name to the divorce papers, handed back every ring and every key, and vanished into the shabbiest quarter of the city. The city believes she threw over the billionaire heir of Elsworth Group for another man and a taste of freedom. Only Clara knows the truth: she left to shield him, carrying her family's disgrace alone so the scandal would never reach his name. Today she is nobody — an anonymous records clerk in a cramped office, working the night shift to keep her brother, who lies in a coma, alive, counting every dollar. Then the conglomerate that swallows her company arrives with a new chief executive at its head. Damian Elsworth has returned from abroad colder than the winter he left behind — a merciless king who dismisses men at a word and has never pardoned the wife who deserted him. And the instant his gaze finds the quaking clerk at the back of the room, he knows precisely who she is. He can ruin her with a single word. He means to make her answer for every tear she left behind. What he does not know is why she truly ran — or what it will cost him to learn it. She gave up everything to set him free. He is about to make certain she never escapes him again. NovelToon got authorization from lala_syalala to publish this work, the content is the author's own point of view, and does not represent the stand of NovelToon.