Who will marry you?

Aurora Evans had secretly sent Adrian Thorne's sugar baby out of the country.

That very night, he retaliated by kidnapping her parents, demanding the sugar baby's whereabouts in exchange for their lives.

Adrian shoved his phone in front of her. On the screen, her parents were tied to chairs, a ticking time bomb strapped to their chests, the digital countdown relentlessly dwindling.

00:59:59

00:59:58

He sat across from her, impeccably dressed in a suit, his long fingers lightly tapping the table, as if waiting for a mundane contract to be signed.