When her family’s empire collapses overnight, Caro Beri is left with nothing but a desperate choice: lose everything… or sell her freedom to the most dangerous man in the city.

Peter Shey is not just a billionaire, he is ruthless, controlling, and feared by everyone who knows him. His world runs on power, precision, and absolute loyalty. Love has no place in it. So when he offers Caro a contract marriage, it comes with one condition: no feelings, no mistakes, no betrayal.

But Caro is already hiding a secret that could destroy him.

Forced into his cold, luxurious world, she becomes both his greatest asset and his most dangerous weakness. As Peter begins to trust her, protect her, and need her, Caro finds herself falling for the one man she was never supposed to love.
Because behind her obedience lies a truth she cannot escape:

she is being controlled… and Peter Shey is the target.

Every stolen glance, every touch, every moment of closeness becomes a lie wrapped in something dangerously real. And when the truth finally comes out, it won’t just break a contract, 
it will destroy a man who never believed in love… and a woman who was never meant to keep his heart.

Peter did not move immediately after opening the anonymous message. The screen glow reflected faintly in his eyes as the words settled into his attention like something deliberately placed rather than sent. Blackridge Tower continued its normal rhythm outside his office, but inside that quiet space, everything felt slightly misaligned, as if a single hidden gear had shifted out of place. He read the message again without blinking, not because he doubted the content, but because he was trying to understand why it had been delivered now, at this exact point in time.


Chapter 123 - CHAPTER 123 – A SHADOW OF THE PAST