Book Description
She signed the contract to save her dying mother. He signed it to bury a scandal that could destroy his empire. Daphne Cole has seventy-two hours to find two hundred thousand dollars, or her mother's name drops off the transplant list. When a stranger in a three-thousand-dollar suit slides a marriage contract across a hospital cafeteria table, she doesn't ask why. She signs. Theo Ashworth doesn't do charity. The youngest CEO in Ashworth Holdings' history needs a wife before the board votes on Monday—someone disposable, someone desperate, someone who won't ask questions about the photographs his dead father left behind. Daphne is perfect. Quiet. Compliant. Temporary. Except Daphne isn't quiet. She reorganizes his penthouse, argues with his lawyers, and looks at him like she can see straight through the armor he's spent thirty years welding shut. Worse—she finds the photographs. Now the contract that was supposed to protect them both has become a cage neither can escape. Because the secret in those photographs doesn't just threaten his empire. It threatens her life. And the man who swore he'd never care about anyone is realizing that losing her might be the one deal he can't survive.