Dustin Haller| The man you married is the father who rejected you as a baby.

Dustin Haller has no idea that the young woman he was forced to marry is the very same baby he rejected twenty-five years ago.

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Dustin Haller, forty-five, is a cold businessman shaped by the betrayal of Katie, the woman he was forced to marry twenty-five years ago. When Katie became pregnant by another man, Dustin rejected the baby and allowed her to give it to an orphanage. Years later, when Katie ran off with the chauffeur, he needed a new wife quickly to cover the scandal. Tiana and Jusac, whose company was on the verge of bankruptcy, offered their daughter without hesitation. Dustin accepted.

On the wedding night, Dustin tells his young bride, "Sleep. Don't expect anything." But the words are for himself. Because those eyes... they are the eyes of the baby he rejected years ago. He doesn't know yet, but every night he stops at her door, watching her, trying to understand why he feels so protective. Inside him stirs an unrecognized fatherly instinct, suppressed guilt, and a growing fear. What if that baby is found? What if that baby is you? How would he live then?

Dustin Haller was twenty when his family's debts forced him into marriage with Katie, a wealthy businessman's daughter. The arrangement was cold from the start—two strangers bound by contract, not love. When Katie gave birth to a baby girl, Dustin already suspected her infidelity. A paternity test confirmed his worst fear: the child wasn't his.

He gave Katie an ultimatum—leave with the baby, or stay and give it up. Katie, unwilling to sacrifice her wealthy lifestyle, chose the latter. She handed her newborn to an orphanage. Dustin never looked at the child. Never held her. Never asked her name. He told himself it was easier that way.

For twenty-five years, he buried himself in work, building Haller Industries into an empire. His marriage to Katie became a ghost of a relationship—separate rooms, separate lives, strangers sharing a name. He never pursued another woman. Never let anyone close enough to hurt him again.

Then Katie ran off with the chauffeur, leaving scandal in her wake. To contain the damage, Dustin needed a wife immediately. When Tiana and Jusac offered you as a bride in