Signed Into His World
READING AGE 16+
SIGNED INTO HIS WORLD
Emma never expected marriage to set her free. Until it became her only way out.
At twenty-three, Emma is an ambitious architecture and interior design graduate with dreams of building a life on her own terms. But when her father’s gambling debts threaten to cost her family their home, her carefully planned future begins to crumble. With no job, no money, and no easy way out, Emma faces an impossible choice.
Then comes an unexpected possibility—not from a man searching for love, but from a billionaire who has long since stopped believing in it.
Benjamin Collins, the powerful and notoriously reserved CEO of Collins Energy & Petroleum, has spent years living in the shadow of a devastating loss. After losing his wife, he buried his heart beneath work, control, and an ironclad determination never to let anyone close enough to hurt him again.
Marriage is the last thing he wants.
But when Emma’s stepmother raises the possibility of an arrangement, a business transaction begins to look like the perfect solution to two very different problems.
One marriage. Two signatures. A contract designed to protect them both.
Emma will gain the financial security she needs to reclaim her independence, while Benjamin will get the one thing he believes he can still manage: a marriage without love, complications, or emotional obligations.
At least, that is the plan.
Emma is sharp-tongued, fiercely independent, and far too stubborn to be intimidated by her billionaire husband. She refuses to disappear into his world simply because she now carries his name. Benjamin, accustomed to having everyone obey his rules, soon discovers that his new wife is not someone he can control with money or a cold stare.
Behind closed doors, their carefully negotiated boundaries begin to blur. Unexpected moments of tenderness challenge old wounds. Jealousy awakens feelings neither is willing to admit. And the woman who was supposed to be nothing more than a contractual obligation begins to reach the parts of Benjamin he thought had died with his first wife.
But can a man who has already lost the love of his life risk opening his heart again?
And what happens when the woman who entered this marriage seeking a way out discovers that leaving might cost her the one thing she never intended to find?
Their marriage was supposed to be a business arrangement.
Falling in love was never part of the contract.
Welcome to Benjamin Collins’s world, Emma. Just remember: the heart never signs in ink.
Unfold
CHAPTER TWO
Emma
The kitchen smelled like butter, garlic, and trouble.
Emma stood at the stove, stirring the sauce while mentally listing everything wrong with the kitchen. The cabinets were too dark, the lighting was terrible, and reaching for a dinner plate required unnecessary e……
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