Sealed by a Contract

Nearing graduation, Sylvana's world was already filled with uncertainty-but nothing could have prepared her for what her father would do next. Refusing to file for bankruptcy, despite the mounting financial disaster looming over them, he opted for a far shadier alternative. Xavier Sullivan, a man with connections that stretched into all the wrong places, extended an offer her father couldn't refuse-not for the sake of saving their home, but for saving his own pride.

In that split second, everything Sylvana had known, every certainty she'd clung to, seemed to unravel. The world as she knew it flipped upside down, as if the ground had fallen away beneath her feet, leaving her grasping for something-anything-stable.

And now, the impossible question: Would she cooperate, bending to Xavier's every whim, and follow her father's path, even as it felt like a betrayal of everything she stood for? Or would she challenge him at every turn, defy the control he was trying to take over her life, and prove that she wasn't someone who could be so easily swayed?

The choice was as terrifying as it was unclear. But one thing was certain: the stakes had never been higher.