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Everyone cried when Emma married Lucas Sterling, the city's youngest cardiothoracic star. She thought she'd won the jackpot. Instead, she got a husband who sleeps at ten, runs a 5K every morning, and treats intimacy like a sterile procedure. After eleven months of polite kisses, gloves, and excuses about not wanting to hurt her, Emma is done being patient. On Sophie Carter's dare, she slips into a red dress and heads to a private party, determined to make her maddeningly restrained husband jealous. Lucas shows up straight from surgery, drags her home, and finally shatters his perfect-doctor mask. He isn't cold. He isn't incapable. He's been hiding a fiercely possessive side for a year, terrified the real man beneath the white coat would scare his wife away. But now that the act is over, can Emma handle just how obsessed her doctor husband really is?