The Touch of a Tyrant
By @john1208
Getting publicly drenched in vintage Merlot by my aristocratic ex-fiancé at the season's biggest gala wasn't on my itinerary. Neither was being rescued by my new boss, Rydel Kastner. Rydel is a ruthless architectural tycoon, a severe germaphobe who wears silk gloves, and my absolute worst rival. But he has a proposition: a one-year marriage contract to swat away the relentless gold-digging exes his family keeps throwing at him to steal his wealth. I need his resources for my own cold-blooded revenge against the men who ruined my family, so I sign. Living in his sterile penthouse, the lines blur. I discover my piano playing is the only thing that quiets his severe trauma-induced night terrors, and strangely, I am the only person whose touch doesn't make him flinch. He's intensely jealous, and his iron-clad contract rules dissolve the moment another man looks at me. But I have a secret: I am the anonymous whistleblower systematically dismantling the elite syndicate. When Rydel catches me crying over our contract's expiration date, his control finally snaps. But what happens when the tyrant realizes my secret revenge mission is the exact same conspiracy he's been hunting his entire life?
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