Prologue
Alex Rose has agreed to play Callum O’Leary’s game: win seven challenges of his choosing and walk away with a million dollars. Twenty-nine women have tried before her. None have won.
The catch? Every time Alex loses a game, she has to submit to one of Callum’s punishments. His punishments escalate, which is why no woman has ever won Callum’s game.
Callum doesn’t expect any woman to win, let alone Alex.
His desires are dark and twisted, which is why he plays these games.
As a self-made millionaire, Callum doesn’t need to entice women to go out with him.
They already throw themselves at him. He plays these games though, because it’s the only way for him to really get what he wants.
Which is to push women to their breaking points.
Alex has won five games so far.
But the games aren’t really what’s on her mind anymore.
After Alex lost the cold plunge at the social wellness club, Callum punished her with the most twisted thing he’s done yet. He brought back the two Swedish men Alex had been flirting with and made her “apologize” to them.
Callum was hoping the punishment would scare Alex away.
It didn’t.
If anything, Alex enjoyed it. Which is something she’s still trying to come to terms with.
Now Alex has a decision to make. Does she finally tell Callum the truth — that the flirting with the Swedish men was Trent’s idea, a plan to make him jealous? Or does she keep it to herself?
Meanwhile, Callum is wrestling with a decision of his own. Push Alex and find out if she can handle all of his darkness… but in the process, risk losing her for good?
Or play it safe and keep the depths of his depravity under lock and key?
It’s not an easy decision to make, but only Callum can make it.
And he’s running out of time.