Defiance has kept Camille alive through endless cryo-sleep, yet the ancestral claim requires her to enter Thomas's breeding contract to hold the fleet against his rival. The engineer offers ruthless command and the connection her isolation has starved for.
In the humming confines of the recovery bay, the star-shaped mark on her abdomen becomes the target of his repeated claims. The contract was meant to be a transaction. It has become an obsession neither of them will log.
He gives the next demand before the alert has finished sounding. Can she accept every one without losing the independence she has buried so deep?
