His Most Expensive Mistake Part 1 ~ Mine To Keep

Omar Al-Rashid has never needed love.

He has money, power, a family name people fear, and an entire city that knows better than to stand in his way.

Amira Haddad is supposed to be nothing more than a dancer.

Eight months of private rooms.
Eight months of the same rules.
No kissing.
No touching.
No questions.

She dances.
He pays.
They leave.

Simple.

Until Omar's family demands the one thing he has spent years avoiding.

A wife.

An heir.

So Omar does what Omar always does when something becomes inconvenient.

He solves it.

With a contract.

Marriage in exchange for money, luxury, protection, and eventually freedom.

Amira accepts.

Not because she loves him.
Not because she wants his name.
And certainly not because she has any intention of becoming the quiet, obedient wife the Al-Rashids expect.

She wants what the contract promises her.

Omar thinks that means he understands her price.

He doesn't.

Because living with Amira is nothing like paying her to dance.

She challenges him.
Provokes him.
Pushes against every rule he makes.
Refuses to bow to a family that expects women to obey and men to decide.

And somewhere between forced dinners, private wars, dangerous promises, jealousy, possession, and a marriage neither of them ever meant to make real, the contract begins to stop feeling like business.

That is where everything goes wrong.

Because Omar has spent his entire life believing control is the only thing that keeps people from destroying him.

And Amira may be the first person he wants badly enough to lose it.