Chapter 1

The mafia boss Shaun Hale got into a car accident and lost his memory, forgetting that he had once forced me to be his.

When his parents found out, they immediately pressured him to divorce me.

Within a single day, I found myself in another city, clutching a divorce certificate in one hand and a massive check in the other, completely dazed.

After being trapped in Shaun Hale's obsessive love for so long, suddenly gaining freedom left me feeling strangely lost.

I started a quiet new life in this unfamiliar city.

One day while shopping for groceries, someone suddenly covered my nose and mouth.

When I opened my eyes again, I was in a dark but familiar basement, hearing a man's familiar voice in my ear:

"Be good and stay mine. I can give you everything you want."

Perfect. Everything was exactly the same as back then.

I learned about Shaun Hale's amnesia a full week after his car accident.

The doctors worked for hours to save his life.

His mother told me about it with grief and fury: "If he hadn't been looking for you, Shaun wouldn't have ended up like this!"

She said that day Shaun was getting treatment for a gunshot wound when he discovered I'd escaped. He immediately drove after me, and in his distracted state, crashed head-on into an oncoming truck.

Luckily his car was expensive enough that the truck driver managed to swerve at the critical moment.

Otherwise he might have died.

I suddenly understood.

Oh... so that's what happened.

No wonder he hadn't come looking for me all these days. I thought the tracking device was broken.

It made me waste a whole week on that island getting windblown.

I was a wife obtained through Shaun Hale's forceful seizure.

I couldn't figure out what attracted him to me.

I was just an ordinary employee, while he was a mafia boss.

And he was also the largest shareholder of my company.

My only interaction with him was when I once smashed a wine bottle over his cousin's head at a cocktail party.

Because his cousin was sexually harassing my female colleague.

At the time, I fully expected to be fired.

The next day, however, I received a transfer notice.

They moved me from that struggling branch office to headquarters that everyone was desperate to get into.

My monthly salary tripled. I was thrilled.

Shaun Hale seemed to appreciate me too, always greeting me with a smile, giving me raises and promotions every few days, firing supervisors who made my life difficult, helping me get rid of my clingy ex-boyfriend.

He both affirmed my work abilities and covered for all my mistakes.

The cheap cufflinks I gave him stayed on his sleeves day after day, year after year.

I felt grateful for my good fortune, thanking my lucky stars every day for having such a great boss.

I was willing to work for him my whole life.

Then one time I had too much to drink. In my daze, Shaun Hale helped me into his car.

He let me lean on his shoulder and said gently: "Sleep. I'll take you home."

I can't hold my liquor well, and I'd drunk a lot that day—enough to sleep all the way home.

But that day I happened to wake up halfway through.

The moment I opened my eyes, I saw Shaun Hale secretly kissing my lips.

He admitted he liked me.

A mafia boss's pursuit was always direct and intense.

Private jets, yachts, diamonds, gowns, priceless paintings—there was nothing I dared not dream of that Shaun Hale couldn't afford to give me.

And beyond these material things, his own qualities were just as impressive.

Eight-pack abs, tall physique, sexy when he smiled, coldly ruthless when he didn't.

Every time I went to galas with him, countless women shot me envious looks.

But I still didn't like him.

I knew that a man like him existed in a different world from mine.

I always thought his infatuation with me was just temporary novelty.

But I never expected he was genuinely serious.

After I rejected Shaun Hale's pursuit yet again, he ran out of patience.

He had a waterfront estate with an airtight little dark room. Whenever I dared to run, he'd drag me into that room and lock me up. Then we'd have wild sex.

Afterward, his face still flushed, he'd force me to marry him.

"Be mine. I'll give you everything you want."

He threatened that if I didn't agree, he'd break my hands and feet and lock me by his side forever.

Of course, he'd said these things countless times but never once followed through.

Every time he caught me and brought me back, seeing my indifferent expression would make his eyes turn red with anger.

At first, this game of me running and him chasing was kind of fun.

After a while, even I found it boring.

I couldn't escape, and he couldn't bear to really hurt me.

Plus I was tired of constantly being locked in that dark room.

So one sunny morning, I married Shaun Hale.