Camille Laurent thought tonight would be the beginning of her future.
Instead, it became the night her life shattered.
Standing in the center of a glittering ballroom, she watches her fiancé slip the engagement ring onto her cousin’s finger. Laughter echoes around her. Cameras flash. The humiliation burns through her chest as whispers spread across the hall.
She has just been publicly replaced.
Her nails dig into her palms. Her heart pounds. But Camille refuses to cry.
Not in front of them.
Not in front of the man who just destroyed her pride.
Just when the room erupts with cruel amusement, the doors open.
The atmosphere shifts instantly.
Dante Moretti walks in.
The ruthless billionaire heir. The man powerful enough to ruin entire corporations with a single decision. Cold, calculating, and feared by everyone in the city.
His sharp gaze sweeps across the hall then stops on Camille.
Tearless.
Humiliated.
Burning with silent fury.
Instead of pity, a strange spark appears in his eyes.
Dante steps closer, ignoring the stunned crowd. His voice is calm, but the words send shockwaves through the room.
“Marry me.”
The hall falls silent.
Camille’s breath catches.
A contract marriage. Three years. A public wife for the most dangerous man in the city.
It’s supposed to be revenge.
But Dante Moretti isn’t a man who pretends.
He claims.
He controls.
He doesn’t believe in love only possession.
As Camille steps into a world of wealth, power, and ruthless ambition, she realizes too late that the devil she married doesn’t share what belongs to him.
And the moment she signed that contract
She stopped being the humiliated bride.
She became the billionaire’s obsession.

Each second felt heavier than the last, like the air itself was tightening around Camille's chest.


Because no one knew what moving would even change.


The girl stepped closer to the nearest screen, scanning it like she expected to find a physical source.


"There has to be a control point," she said.


Chapter 69 - Zero