Adrian Knight
The Billionaire With a Vow of Ice
His name strikes like thunder—low, dark, and final.
He isn't just a man. He's a warning dressed in tailored suits and midnight cologne.
Los Angeles knows him as the empire builder, the king who never kneels, the shadow behind too many fallen legacies.
But Elena knows better.
She's seen the monster behind the mask. The man who offered her a ring not out of love, but leverage.
The man who could destroy her father with a flick of his fingers—yet chose her instead.
He moves like sin incarnate: calm, controlled, cruelly charming.
Every step he takes is deliberate. Every word, a knife dipped in velvet.
Yet beneath all that power and polish... is a man bleeding behind closed doors.
A man whose vows were once sacred.
Until they were broken.
Now, Adrian doesn't love.
He possesses.
And Elena? She's his most dangerous possession yet.
"I don't believe in love anymore, Elena. But I believe in ownership. In control. And you— you belong to me now."
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Elena Whitmore
The Heiress Who Became a Bargain
She was born into opulence—dresses that cost more than most weddings, wine at fourteen, lies by sixteen.
But nothing in her privileged world prepared her for Adrian Knight.
She wasn't the perfect daughter, but she tried. Until trying wasn't enough.
Until her father traded her like a pawn to pay off sins he swore didn't exist.
Now, she wears a ring that burns colder than any winter.
A contract signed with trembling fingers and silent screams.
But Elena isn't fragile. Not anymore.
Because behind the broken smiles and bruised pride…
Is fire.
And Adrian?
He may own her legally. But emotionally, spiritually—he's already at her mercy.
She is not his bride.
She is his reckoning.
"He thinks I'm the sacrifice. But I was born from ruin. I don't burn—I survive the fire."
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