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Isabella Ferreira came to Los Angeles with nothing but a portfolio of dreams and a vow carved into her bones: no man would ever again hold the keys to her kingdom, her body, or her broken heart. Three years she kept that vow. Then an envelope arrived, her name inked in a hand that understood the weight of possession, and the vow began to crack. Mateo Ángel Cortés does not ask. He commands, and calls it an invitation. He owns the steel bones of the towers she designs, the money that built her firm's future, and, if he has his way, the woman who swore she'd never be owned again. What he offers her is not romance. It is a contract: exclusivity, discretion, total surrender, written out in clauses as cold and precise as a blade. What she offers him in return is worse. She signs it. Some men want to love you. Mateo Cortés wants to consume you, to blur the line between where you end and he begins, until wanting him feels indistinguishable from ruin. Isabella built her life on the belief that structural integrity could be assessed in steel, in glass, in men. She is about to learn how wrong she was. Some cities dream. Los Angeles hunts. And so does he. …more
