On the detention center TV, Elara watched her fiancé, prosecutor Liam, announce his sudden engagement to politician Chloe. Simultaneously, his assistant slid a plea agreement across the table, urging her to sacrifice for the greater good and take the fall for his forged evidence. Elara tore the document to shreds. She used her single phone call to dial Liam’s billionaire rival, Victor Sterling, trading highly classified legal intel for a ruthless alliance. By choosing this irreversible path, she lost her former judicial protection, stepping out of jail to face a bloodthirsty media mob as the immediate price of her bail. Victor arrived at the visitation room with cold calculation. You promised me a war, he warned softly. You better be that deadly weapon.