Contracted to a Sleeping CEO

Claire Carter's father is bedridden and the family firm is weeks from collapse, so she agrees to marry Victor Foster, the head of a wealthy house who has lain in a coma since an accident. She had a plan of her own before that: her boyfriend had promised to run away with her on the morning of the ceremony. He never comes. She finds him alone with her stepsister instead, and then walks the aisle by herself at a wedding with no groom, into a house she has never lived in. That night she sits with the husband she has only now seen, motionless in the bed. Her boyfriend slips into the room, says he regrets everything, and works around to what he actually came for, which is her help stripping the Foster fortune. While he is still talking, Victor opens his eyes. He has been listening. Claire is left married to a man everyone in the household believes cannot hear them, in a house where the people around her are counting on exactly that.