"I'd rather have you broken in my arms than whole in another man's." ---- She was taken as collateral. A living reminder of her father's betrayal, locked away in the estate of the most dangerous man in the criminal underworld. Cold-eyed. Calculating. Merciless. He is everything the rumors promised, and worse. With one command he could end her world, and with one mistake she could lose her life. So she makes the only choice she has left: play along. Learn his routines, his weaknesses, the cracks in his armor he doesn't think she sees. Every smile is a lie. Every softened breath is an act. But pretending comes at a cost. His gaze lingers too long. His presence tightens around her like a snare. The tension between them becomes a weapon of its own-and if she miscalculates, it won't just be her plan that shatters. Because in a house ruled by a man who fears nothing, she's about to prove that even monsters can bleed.. She just has to survive him long enough to do it.