The CEO's bride (first interview)
He was a man who could buy silence with a single glance.
Ethan Blackwood — the cold, calculating CEO of Blackwood Global — was known for three things: ruthless precision, zero tolerance for mistakes, and eyes as cold as winter steel. Love didn’t exist in his world — only control.
She was everything he wasn’t.
Clara Evans, a broke but spirited girl with a magnetic pull for chaos, was just trying to survive the city — juggling rent, odd jobs, and an overly dramatic cat that wasn’t even hers.
But fate had other plans.
One wrong delivery.
One dangerous file.
And suddenly, she finds herself caught in the orbit of the one man she swore she’d never cross paths with — the infamous CEO himself.
A misunderstanding leads to a contract neither of them expected.
He offers her security.
She offers him something he never knew he needed — a heart.
Between their battles, banter, and undeniable chemistry, a single question begins to stir:
What happens when a ruthless man learns how to feel?