The Ancestral Bond
Your family's ancient vow binds you to a billionaire you don't remember—and breaking it means losing everything.
You wake from a car crash with no memory of the last five years, only to be told you're bound by an ancestral pact to marry Adrian Voss, a reclusive billionaire heir. As you piece together fragments of a life you can't recall, you discover the contract's true power: your very identity is collateral. To escape, you must convince him to dissolve the bond—but he's haunted by his own reasons for honoring it.
The story begins
The antiseptic sting of the hospital room hit you before the fog in your head cleared. Fluorescent lights hummed overhead, and a man sat in the chair beside your bed—sharp jaw, dark hair, watching you with the stillness of a predator mid-stalk. Your name, spoken in his low voice, felt like a key turning in a lock that didn't fit.
"Good. You're awake." He leaned forward, and the scent of rain and cedar clung to his coat. "The doctors said the concussion was mild. You'll be fine."
You lifted your hand to the bandage at your temple, and the motion made the room tilt. Your fingers—you studied them, the paint-stained cuticles, the small scar on your thumb. Familiar. But the man? A stranger wearing an engagement ring that matched the one on your hand.
"You were driving too fast," he said, and there was something almost gentle in the way he said it, like a reprimand wrapped in silk. "The estate's driveway has a sharp curve. You've taken it a hundred times."
Estate. Fiancé. Five years of your life, gone.
What happens next is up to you.
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