Claiming the Ruthless CEO

Beatrix Fernando, a struggling club waitress, accepts a shocking bargain: become Apollo Cartier's temporary wife and secure funds for her brother's critical surgery. Determined to guard her heart against the ruthless billionaire, she enters their arrangement with resolve—only to find herself irrevocably drawn to him as days turn into passion.

Apollo Cartier, the ice-cold heir to a corporate empire, orchestrates the marriage as a calculated move to claim his father's company. Cold, commanding, and utterly unreachable, he views Beatrix as nothing more than a necessary pawn in his ambitious game.

But secrets have a way of unraveling. When Beatrix discovers she's pregnant with Apollo's child, her carefully constructed facade shatters. Now she faces an impossible choice: stay and attempt to soften the man who broke her, or vanish with his unborn child and start anew?

A tale of survival, forbidden desire, and the question of whether love can truly conquer a heart forged in stone.