Keeping the Runaway

He didn't rescue her. He acquired her.

Wren Calloway has spent three years disappearing — new city, new name, new locks on every door — running from a family debt she never agreed to and a man who never stopped looking. When her cover finally collapses in a Chicago parking garage at midnight, the man standing between her and the men sent to collect her isn't a stranger.

He's the one who bought the debt first.

Sebastian Vance doesn't do rescues. He does returns on investment. Three years ago he acquired Wren's father's failing company — and with it, a private clause nobody was ever supposed to have to use. Now she belongs, contractually and completely, to the top three floors of his building, his security detail, and his bed, until the debt is paid in full. He tells himself it's business. He knows, the moment she looks at him like he's just another cage, that it stopped being business the second he saw her name on the file.

Wren has one rule: never want the thing that owns her. Sebastian has one weakness: her, defiant and starving and refusing to break the way every other asset in his life has broken. Locked together in a penthouse she can't leave and a arrangement neither of them chose, the war between them turns into something far more dangerous than hatred — and far harder to walk away from.

He was supposed to be her jailer.

He's about to become the only home she's ever fought to keep.

This is a STANDALONE dark romance for ADULT AUDIENCES (18+) ONLY. Explicit content, power-imbalance dynamics, and possessive/claiming themes throughout. Guaranteed HEA.

Tropes: Forced Proximity • Possessive Alpha • Billionaire Romance • Dark Romance • Enemies to Lovers • Guardian/Debt Arrangement