After overhearing her father and stepmother plotting to marry her off to their debtor's unsuccessful son in place of her stepsister, Ariel decided to run away that night. However, fate had other plans, as she was mysteriously kidnapped on the same night.
Waking up to find herself kidnapped by the very people she sought to escape from felt like hitting rock bottom. Now, she faced a forced marriage to a man she neither knew nor loved. But everything changed when she discovered that her new husband was the richest billionaire in the country.
Chaz Aiden, a successful billionaire with businesses spanning the globe, had no interest in women, especially after his mother divorced his father for a wealthier man. When his grandmother asked him to marry the Hudson family’s daughter as a favor, he saw it as a greedy arrangement.
He vowed to make his new wife's life miserable, constantly reminding her that she was nothing more than an object he had purchased through a contract, never to be loved.
