His fangs,Her cure

Elara used her last savings to bid on a damaged fox shifter at an underground auction. She brought him back from the brink, and in just two years, he climbed from nothing to CEO. But the man she saved repaid her with cruelty—mocking her hearing loss, calling her worthless, and abandoning her when she was attacked on a cruise ship. Just as everything falls apart, serpent shifter Riven appears. He rescues her, treats her injuries, and uncovers a truth from years ago: Elara once freed a trapped black snake, and he never forgot.