The Heir's Contract Bride: A Billionaire Forced Proximity Enemies to Lovers Romance of Betrayal and Desire (Black Suit Billionaires #7)

Legacy. Power. Control.

Those were the only things that mattered…
until the day my grandfather’s will detonated everything I’d built.

To keep Arden Industries I must honor a decades-old marriage contract.
A contract binding me to Aurelia Wynn Harridan, the quiet bookstore girl with ink on her fingers and fire in her spine.

A woman I’ve never met.
A woman I do not want.
A woman who could ruin me.

But if I refuse, my sadistic cousin Lysander gets everything.
My company. My legacy. My life’s work.

So I give Aurelia the one thing I have left to bargain
a marriage in name only.
A contract.
A solution.

She responds with the one thing I never

Defiance.

Aurelia doesn’t bow.
She doesn’t bend.
She walks into my estate like she belongs there, challenges my every command, and looks at me like she can see through every wall I’ve spent years rebuilding.

She’s a problem I can’t control.
A variable I can’t predict.
A spark in a world I’ve kept cold.

And she’s becoming dangerous.

Because I can’t stop watching her.
Wanting her.
Needing her.

Then the ghosts of my past return.

Seraphine — the woman who betrayed me five years ago — slithers back into the spotlight with secrets sharp enough to kill.
Lysander moves pieces on a board I didn’t realize I was standing on.
And Aurelia finds herself in their crosshairs.

The gala was supposed to be a performance.
A display of unity.
A show of power.

Instead, it becomes a nightmare.

Drugged champagne.
Flashbulbs exploding like gunfire.
Aurelia’s body collapsing into my arms.

I thought I’d forgotten how to fear.
How to rage.
How to break.

But holding her — her breath shallow, her skin cold — something inside me shatters.

I shield her from the cameras.
I tear her away from the crowd.
I stay beside her all night because I cannot do anything else.

And when the board demands annulment…
When Lysander sneers his way through the vote…
When the world tells me to choose my company or my wife—

I choose her.

Without hesitation.
Without apology.

For the first time in my life, the truth is brutal and

Aurelia isn’t my obligation.
She’s the one person who sees me — the man behind the empire, the boy behind the scars.

And I will burn this entire world to protect her.

But danger isn’t finished with us.
Lysander’s knives are still out.
Seraphine’s regrets are catching fire.
And Aurelia is digging into secrets powerful enough to destroy us all.

Love was never in the plan.
But now it’s the only vow I can’t afford to break.

Because the woman fate forced on me…
The woman I resented…
The woman I tried not to want…

is becoming the only thing I can’t survive without.