Elena was the daughter of a wealthy man. Her mother died young. Her father remarried. The whole family revolved around her spoiled stepsister, Chloe. Elena had loved her bodyguard, Adrian, for five years. She did not know he was the president of a rising financial group. She did not know he had stayed in the house to protect Chloe, the woman he loved. Every gesture Elena made, he saw as shameless. Every kindness, he called a nuisance. Then Elena discovered the truth. She woke up. Her father's business collapsed. He gave her two choices: sell her mother's last gift, or marry Kane Howard, the head of an old noble family. The rumors said the Howards were bloodthirsty. They said Kane had killed and eaten his fiancées. Elena chose Kane to keep her mother's legacy. On their wedding night, she waited for him to attack. He threw her his coat and slept in the study. Later, she learned the truth. The man the world called a monster stood outside her door all night when she had nightmares. He silenced her stepmother with a single phone call. They fell in love. Adrian finally saw Chloe's true face. He realized Elena was the one who had saved him years ago. But Elena was already someone else's wife.
