Collateral Claim

I came to my father’s birthday party for a celebration. I left engaged to a man who calls me his collateral.
My life changed course the night a stranger announced our engagement to a room full of powerful elite.

And my father, the man who should’ve protected me, stood by and let it happen.
Until Endo Macarley gets his brother back, he will hold me as collateral.
Now I’m trapped in the villain’s territory, where his will is the law.
A place where danger lurks just around the corner and it always finds my door.
Meanwhile, the lines blur, and the more I fight him, the deeper I fall.
Because the most terrifying part isn’t that he took me.
It’s that he might never let me go.