She was human. He was forbidden. The contract changed everything.Elena Carter has one rule: survive. Broke and desperate, she answers an ad for a 6-month marriage of convenience. She never expected the groom to be Alpha Damien Blackwood, the ruthless werewolf who rules the Eastern Territory with blood and fear.Damien doesn’t want a mate. He wants control. Humans are weak, and Elena is the perfect pawn to secure a truce with his rival packs. The contract is simple: her name, her body, her silence. In return, her debts disappear.But Elena’s scent is wrong. It’s intoxicating. It’s driving his beast insane. When a single drop of her blood awakens his dormant mate bond, Damien faces an impossible choice: break the contract and lose his power, or claim her and risk losing his mind.She signed for money. She stayed because he wouldn’t let her go. Now the Alpha is obsessed, and Elena is trapped in a gilded cage with a monster who calls her his.