Love Slave to the Mafia Boss's Passion

Malissa never met her groom before the wedding. She stands at the altar for hours in a heavy dress, waiting, while her seriously ill grandmother sits in the chapel. The groom finally arrives drunk, held up by two bodyguards. Boss Torex slams a gun against Hayden's temple to wake him. Hayden looks at Malissa and says, "She's not my bride." He swears he will not marry anyone besides Amelia. The wedding falls apart, but Malissa is not free. She owes the Torex family five hundred million dollars, a debt left behind by her dead parents, and her grandmother needs treatment she cannot afford.

Boss Torex makes a new deal. Malissa will live with Hayden for thirty days in a penthouse suite. If neither agrees to marry at the end, the debt is erased. There are separate bedrooms, but Malissa must either do something for Hayden or grant one of his wishes every day. Hayden sets four rules. The last one is the worst. If she breaks a rule, he claims a part of her body as his. That first night, he makes her strip to choose. He picks her left hand.

The next day, Hayden brings a party home and introduces Malissa as his "left hand lady." His hand stays on her waist all night. When she tries to sleep, he kisses her and tells her he will take a little more every day. Later, three half-dressed women walk out of his bedroom and mock her as plain. Hayden corrects them. She is his girlfriend, and they should watch what they say. The women are removed. Malissa is left confused. He humiliates her in public, then protects her in private.

She visits her grandmother and lies that everything is fine. Her grandmother brings up a boy named Ethan, someone Malissa once loved, but they have already broken up. She tells herself thirty days will pass and life will go back to normal. She makes Hayden breakfast. He doesn't show up. She decides she is only a temporary guest in his world.

Then Hayden knocks on her door past midnight. When she opens it, he kisses her without a word, holds her tighter when she pushes, and leaves her frozen. She barely sleeps. She tells herself it means nothing. She has twenty-eight days left and no intention of falling for a man who only wants to claim her piece by piece.