I AM THE SECRET FOUNDATION OF HER EMPIRE I used to build skyscrapers and command crews of hundreds. Now I am nothing more than a delinquent asset. One missed deadline cost Isadora Aldean millions, and she decided my pride was the only currency she would accept. She stripped me of my name and my clothes in her glass-walled executive suite. She dismantled the man I was and replaced him with a creature of pure obedience. My world has shrunk to the size of a steel cage beneath her mahogany desk. I am her human footstool and her silent witness to every power play. While she closes multi-million dollar deals, I am tucked away in the shadows of her office. Her rivals mock my rugged spirit while they rest their feet on my back. The humiliation is absolute. The discipline is clinical. Every inch of my skin belongs to her. She controls my every breath and denies me every release. My body is a tool she uses to build her legacy. I thought the cage would be my prison, but it has become my sanctuary. The sting of her command is the only thing that makes me feel alive. I have traded the freedom of the sky for the weight of her collar. I am no longer the foreman of the Horizon Tower; I am the permanent property of the woman who broke me.