He leans in, his green eyes darkening to black as anger radiates off him. "You think this is a game?" His voice drops to a dangerous whisper. "I gave you one instruction. You chose to defy me." My mind races with a thousand sharp replies, but all I can focus on is the billionaire CEO towering over me, his possessive gaze pinning me to the wall behind me. "Rebellious people get punished," he growls, closing the distance between us until there's nowhere left to run. I force myself to meet his stare, even as my voice wavers. "And what kind of punishment are we talking about?" His smile turns predatory. "You're about to find out." *** The plan was simple: marry the woman his business partner selected, strengthen their corporate alliance, unite their families. Clean. Calculated. Perfect—until he meets her personal assistant and everything spirals into chaos. Now he's caught between honoring a dark arrangement and surrendering to an obsession he never saw coming. She's everything he shouldn't want, and he's everything she should fear. But in a world of lies, betrayal, and dangerous games, sometimes the darkest love is the only one that feels real.