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When Elias drags Carmen from the dormitory to his gilded mansion, the game becomes a prison. A scholarship student's survival depends on her ability to play the perfect obsession for a wealthy stalker who believes he owns her. Ari knows the rules: smile when he touches her, blush when he whispers "mine," and never let him see the revulsion crawling beneath her skin. Every calculated kiss, every practiced moan is a weapon in her arsenal...until childhood trauma resurfaces, and the lines between performance and survival blur. As his possessiveness deepens into something dangerously close to love, Ari must decide: is freedom worth destroying the fragile sanity of the boy who thinks he's saving her? Or will she become the very monster she's pretending to be? In a world where beauty hides rot and wealth buys obedience, who is truly the captive-and who is the captor?