She fell from power.

She rose to her knees.

Now-she rules by obedience.

After losing her empire and surrendering her pride, Verena Cross has fully embraced her role as the owned, collared submissive of Julian Cross-the man she once humiliated. She's not just beneath him now. She belongs to him entirely: body, will, and soul.

But in giving herself over, Verena becomes something more than a slave. She becomes an icon.

What begins as private worship spills into the public eye. Executives, rivals, and powerful women from every corner of industry begin to take notice-not with disgust, but with desire. They don't want to dominate the world anymore. They want to surrender to something real.

As Verena rises as Julian's high priestess-marking others, training disciples, and building the House of Obedience-she becomes the voice of a movement no one saw coming: a world where kneeling isn't weakness, it's power in its purest form.

But with visibility comes threat.

Loyalty will be tested. Obedience will be challenged. And at the center of it all, one truth remains:

She was never meant to lead from above.

She was born to rule-from her knees.