Three years ago, I met the woman of my dreams and destroyed her in under ten minutes.
One disastrous meeting was all it took to sear her into my memory—the quiet artist with secrets in her shadowed eyes.
So when she handed in her resignation, preparing to disappear from my world forever, I made my move.
And discovered that she’s tangled in a mess I’m equipped to handle.
My offer is non-negotiable: become my wife, and I’ll make her problems vanish.
She sees a marriage of convenience, a ninety-day reprieve from a nightmare. I see the end of a three-year obsession. She thinks she’s a temporary employee. I know she’s my permanent possession.
She doesn’t see the contradictions I hide—the control I crave versus the chaos she ignites in my soul.
She’s a beautiful, broken thing, and I’m obsessed with finding all her fractured pieces… just so I can put her back together as mine.
But as I peel back the layers of her anxiety, I realize her secrets are dangerously entwined with my own.
She can count down the days on her calendar all she wants. It won’t matter.
I’m rewriting the terms of our deal, and the fine print says forever.
Diana
Rule number one of faking a marriage with a billionaire: Don’t fall into his bed.
I lasted less than a day.
The deal was simple: play the doting wife to a finance genius. In exchange, he’d make my problems disappear. Easy, right?
Wrong. Because my new “husband” is Mykola Frez—the man whose brutal critique shattered my artistic dreams three years ago.
Now, he’s my only way out of a dangerous situation. He needs an elegant, art-loving bride to impress a reclusive business partner.
I just need to survive the charade and run.
But the Mykola Frez behind closed doors is nothing like the charming mogul on magazine covers. He’s intense, possessive, and his gaze follows me with a hunger that feels terrifyingly real.
He makes me believe this fairy tale could be real.
But I’m living on borrowed time and borrowed love.
He’s determined to uncover the secrets I’m hiding, but he has no idea that my darkest secret is already tangled up with his world—a truth that could destroy us both.