Kept From Him

I sign the arrangement because I need the money more than I need my pride. Six months. Complete obedience. No questions asked outside the bedroom — or inside it.
Damian Cole doesn't do relationships. He does control. Contracts. Terms. A woman who kneels when he tells her to and asks for nothing when he's done. I tell myself I can survive six months of being owned by a man twice as hard as he is handsome, a man eleven years older than me with a past he won't explain and a temper he barely leashes.
I don't survive it. I fall.
And then the contract ends, and I run before he can see what I'm carrying — his.
Eight months later, I'm hiding in a city he doesn't know, raising a secret I never meant to keep this long, when he walks back into my life like he never left it. Damian doesn't ask if the baby is his. He already knows. And the man who once let me walk away isn't letting me run a second time.
He wants the child. He wants me back on my knees. He wants to know why I hid the one thing that was ever truly his to claim — and he isn't interested in my reasons until he's had every part of the truth, and every part of me, laid bare in front of him.
I thought I escaped him once. I was wrong. Damian Cole doesn't lose what belongs to him. He just waits.
Tropes: Secret Baby, Possessive Dom, Age-Gap, Dark/Morally Gray Hero, Forced Reunion, Guaranteed HEA