When Julian Walker abandons Elena at the altar to answer a message from Chloe, his former lover, he turns her wedding into a national scandal. Before the press can tear her down, Dominic, Julian’s billionaire best friend and head of a six-hundred-billion-dollar empire, steps onto the stage, declares the wedding still on, and takes Julian’s place. He backs the shock marriage with a stock-transfer agreement that gives Elena the power to strike back at the Walker family.Dominic has loved Elena in secret for seven years, but the feared CEO becomes a devoted, insecure husband desperate to keep her. Elena accepts him for her own reasons: she recognizes the timid boy from her past and intends to make Julian and Chloe pay. As Dominic protects her from public attacks, business retaliation, and a kidnapping plot, their marriage becomes a charged battle of jealousy, control, and hidden affection.
