The Paid Companion Who Found Love

For four years, Emily was Kyler Hamilton's self-proclaimed "human tranquilizer," a breathing sedative bought to soothe his crippling anxiety. To save her family from ruinous debt, she'd accepted the gilded cage of his mansion, enduring his disdain and emotional cruelty, constantly reminded she was nothing more than a paid function. But at a glittering charity gala, Kyler, in a twisted display of power, publicly announced he was "transferring her service contract" to a quiet librarian for a humiliating "one dollar." The casual contempt shattered her composure, reducing her value to a discarded, cheap commodity and leaving her utterly bereft, walking out into a future she hadn't dared to dream of. How could someone take such cruel delight in breaking another, in reducing her existence to an exchange? Would her worth forever be measured by the dollar that bought her freedom, or could an unexpected act of genuine kindness be the turning point that allowed her to reclaim a life, and a love, priceless beyond Kyler's comprehension?