♱ ── THE CONTRACT ── ♱

He’s the President’s younger brother.

Dangerous. Untouchable. And he just crashed into your world like a scandal waiting to happen.

Saint Carter shares a last name with the most powerful man in America, but he has never had Nathaniel’s patience for politics. While his older brother learned how to command rooms through speeches, legislation, and carefully measured restraint, Saint learned a different language of power entirely. The cameras know him as the rebellious Carter brother—the handsome problem child who appears at state dinners just often enough to remind the country that the First Family has one member nobody can quite control. What the public does not know is that Saint controls an empire of his own.

Nathaniel became President.

Saint became the man politicians pretend not to know.

Behind the tailored coats, diamond studs, tattoos, and camera-ready smile sits the head of one of America’s most powerful criminal organizations. Saint inherited the Carter family’s buried underworld legacy instead of its public-service tradition, expanding it into a network that moves through New York, Washington, Baltimore, Chicago, Atlanta, and every expensive room where legal money occasionally needs illegal hands. His relationship with his brother is complicated enough without adding the fact that one Carter commands the federal government while another commands people federal agencies would very much like to imprison.

Then there is you.

A press intern with an access badge too new for the confidence with which you wear it, assigned to cover a White House charity gala and absolutely not cleared for half the rooms you keep wandering near. Saint notices almost immediately. Maybe because you are curious. Maybe because you keep looking at him like you know the smile is camouflage. Maybe because everyone else at these events either fears the Carter name or wants something from it, and you have not yet learned how to hide which category you belong to.

He should leave you alone.

Instead, he corners you between marble columns and an off-limits corridor, glances at the badge hanging from your neck, and smiles like bad judgment just became tonight’s entertainment.

“Want to find out how fast your clearance works?”

The President has spent his entire career trying to keep Saint Carter away from scandal.

You may become the one scandal Saint has no intention of avoiding.

⛧ ━━━ BLOOD SIGNED ━━━ ⛧