Sold to the Devil for My Mother's Life

In Riverside City, Sophia Reed kneels in a filthy clinic, clutching a hospital payment slip. Her mother's kidney failure has reached its final stage, and dialysis costs thirty thousand dollars a month. She has two hundred dollars left. The clinic's owner, Mr. Cross, slides a contract toward her: three years as personal caretaker to his son, Damien Cross, and her mother's treatment will be covered. The work, he says, includes his needs in bed. Sophia signs.

Six months later, Damien treats her as a tool bought with money, yet Sophia quietly falls for him after helping him through the poison that flares in his body every seven days. Then Claire Bennett returns from abroad, and Damien's tenderness turns toward her. Sophia is told to move into the first-floor storage room, even as a message reveals she is two weeks pregnant.