What He Owes

Elara Asher has spent twenty-three years believing one thing above all else: her father would do anything for her.
She is Jackson Asher's only daughter. His sweetheart. His pride and joy. Raised in unimaginable wealth, surrounded by love, and fresh out of university with no real plans beyond figuring out what she wants from life, Elara has never had a reason to question the family she worships.
Until Cassian Black walks into it.
For twenty years, Cassian has lived with a disappearance that destroyed everything he had. His mother vanished when he was ten. His father never recovered. And while Cassian grew up learning how to find the people everyone else gave up on, one name remained buried beneath years of lies.
Jackson Asher.
Cassian doesn't want his money.
He doesn't want an apology.
He wants the one thing Jackson loves more than anything else.
Elara.
When her father is finally given the choice between facing the past and protecting his daughter, Elara expects him to fight for her.
Instead, he looks at Cassian and says two words.
Take her.
Now trapped inside Cassian's secluded estate outside Toronto, watched by cameras and cut off from everyone she loves, Elara is determined to understand the man who has made her the price of a debt she knows nothing about.
Cassian expected revenge to feel satisfying.
He didn't expect Elara to question him, challenge him, invade every quiet corner of his life and make him want things he has spent years convincing himself he doesn't need.
She was supposed to be leverage.
A punishment.
The debt finally collected.
But the closer Elara gets to the truth, the harder it becomes for Cassian to ignore the one thing he knew from the beginning.
She was never guilty.
And by the time he understands that loving her means letting her choose him, Elara may already be planning the one thing Cassian Black has built his entire life to prevent.
A disappearance.