Anchored Contract

Anna’s gun is pressed to Cade’s chest when Mika throws herself between them—and the bullet tears through her instead. The instant her blood touches Cade, a forbidden Bond ignites: if she dies, the city’s strongest combat genius dies with her. Mika is only a mocked C-rank Anchor, useful as a human blood bag and tracking device. Cade is an arrogant S-rank heir with a powerful family, a jealous fiancée, and every reason to despise the nobody who now controls his life; yet every wound she suffers weakens him, and every time she falls, he comes running. When his family locks her away as a living “insurance policy,” Mika uncovers deleted records linking her missing parents to the mass deaths of the first bonded fighters. To survive the Bond—and expose the people determined to erase her—Mika must decide: break Cade’s trust and risk his death, or bind herself to the enemy who may be the only person willing to take the next bullet for her.